Anxiety And Self-Salvation

Kazuo Ishiguro(1954-)is one of the most popular British writers.He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017.He is known as one of the “Three Immigrants” in the British literary circle because of his immigration status.On account of his passion in writing,Ishiguro produced excellent works.Never Let Me Go,as a dystopian science fiction,is a masterpiece of Kazuo Ishiguro.Focusing on a group of human clones,the novel describes the process of their growth and death.With Ishiguro’s unique narrative skills,lively language and attractive plots,the novel has drawn much attention from scholars.Many scholars have done abundant researches about Never Let Me Go,but few scholars have studies this novel from the perspective of neo-psychoanalysis.Based on anxiety theory of Horney’s neo-psychoanalysis,this paper aims to interpret how the clones get rid of inner anxiety and achieve self-salvation by analyzing the specific embodiment of anxiety,the causes of anxiety and the ways of out of anxiety.This paper takes Karen Horney’s anxiety theory as the theoretical foundation.In Horney’s view,the causes of inner anxiety should be from the perspectives of society,culture and individual experiences.The change of macro-environment is the root cause of inner anxiety,such as social changes and cultural transition,and the special individual experiences are the direct ones.In addition,Horney summarized three kinds of coping strategies including “moving toward people”,“moving against people” and “moving away from people”.They are adopted by people to fight against anxiety and help them get rid of inner anxiety.In Never Let Me Go,human clones have achieved self-salvation by constantly changing coping strategies.We can get inspire from clones.With the fast pace of life in modern society,faced inner anxiety from society and family,we need to actively adopt three coping strategies to maintain the healthy personalities.In this way,we can live more happily and more meaningfully.