A Prototype Interpretation Of Zweig's Novels

Stephen Zweig is a famous Austrian world writer in the 20 th century.Passionate characters are the prominent features of Zweig's novels.The spiritual world driven by passion is the basic theme of Zweig's novel creation.In his writing,passion is awakened from the unconscious in a certain moment in life,and affects the fate of the characters in a novel with a breakthrough and repressed vitality.This thesis combines Jung's prototype theory to deeply analyze the passionate protagonist in Zweig's novels.There are mainly strange women in "A Letter from a Strange Woman",Mrs.C in "A Woman's Twenty-four Hour in Life",a Doctor in Malay Madman and a Professor in "Emotional Disorder",revealing passion.The common characteristics of the characters: in the contradiction between human instinct and social norms,driven by desire,in order to pursue the ideal love in the heart to break through the shackles of ethics and morality;according to this feature,the aesthetic significance of the passionate protagonist in Zweig's novels To explain the passionate characters that Zweig focuses on to explore the special value of the deep secret mystery of human nature.Carl Jung is "one of the greatest thinkers of the 20 th century" and his theory has had a tremendous impact on human self-knowledge.The core of Jung's analytical psychology is the collective unconscious.This is also histheoretical innovation in Freud.He believes that personality is a unique whole.Personality structure is composed of three levels: consciousness,individual unconsciousness and collective unconsciousness.The collective unconscious is the bottom-level subconscious part of the personality structure,which is composed of all human instinct and its associated prototype.Prototype is the inner subconscious image of human instinct.The universal existence of each of us in the unconscious,affecting and even controlling people's behavior and destiny,plays an important role in the development of personality.There are four main prototypes: Anima and Animus,shadow,personality mask.,self.The main body of this thesis consists of four chapters.The first chapter introduces Jung's prototype theory,focusing on its shadow of personality development,personality mask,Anima and Animus and self.The second chapter and the third chapter use Jung's prototype theory to analyze the characteristics of passionate characters in Zweig's novels.Firstly,the psychological reasons of the passion characteristics of Zweig's novels are analyzed by the theory of shadow prototype.Secondly,the Anime and Animus prototype theory is used to analyze the sexual orientation and special behavior of the passionate protagonist.The third uses the personality mask theory from the contradictory and complex relationship between personality mask and shadow,reveals the different erotic behaviors of the passionate protagonists,the common reasons for their psychological repression under the fate of life,interprets the differences of the psychological prototypes of thecharacters,and the fate of their characters.Inner collective unconscious dominance.Finally,using the theory of self-prototype to analyze how passionate characters break through moral shackles and seek self-realization in different forms.Furthermore,it analyzes Zweig's passionate characters as a special creative perspective,and deeply reveals the mysteries of the deep psychology of the characters.The aesthetic value of the inherent contradiction of human nature.