Trauma And Healing

Kenzaburo Oe is the acknowledged representative writer of the post-war literature in Japan.His novel Personal Experience is one of the Nobel-winning works and it is based on Oe's real experience.Kenzaburo Oe's son was born with brain damage,and this terrible news broke his heart.Fortunately,writing helps Kenzaburo Oe get through life crisis.This thesis tries to explore how Kenzaburo Oe's psychological wounds healed through writing in the background of narrative psychology,so we can know more about Oe's psychology of creation.Apart from introduction and conclusion,this thesis is divided into three parts.Firstly,this paper studies the trauma Oe have been suffering,and we can see a wounded I.Secondly,presenting trauma.Personal Experience is the life story Oe creates and he projects Me to the leading character Bird in the novel.In the life story,Oe apply the postmodern narrative art of flashback and symbolization to show inner torment.Thirdly,healing psychological wounds.In Personal Experience,Oe identifies with Bird and achieve the integration of I and Me.In the end,he decides to be a fighting humanist in rest of life.In the face of life crisis,Kenzaburo Oe chooses writing to overcome crisis and he makes it.For all,we can learn from Oe's success,so let's writing when we feel sad.