研究《幸存者回忆录》中的自我与自性_英语论文

A Study on Ego and Self in The Memoirs of a Survivor

摘要

《幸存者回忆录》是多丽丝·莱辛关注“内心空间”的一部重要小说。莱辛曾说《幸存者回忆录》是其自传的尝试，是以小说的形式来书写自己的经历。《幸存者回忆录》中以叙述者的角度来讲述主人公艾米丽的成长，在现实生活中艾米丽由一个谨慎的小女生，逐渐成长为一名具有管理能力和魅力的女人，在墙另一端的世界中，讲述了叙述者所不了解的艾米丽成长的遭遇和痛苦。

本文将从荣格的心灵理论出发，从集体无意识角度对主人公意识自我与自性之间如何整合，如何实现自性化的过程加以深究。本文将探究主人公人格自性化的过程，研究自性化对人格成长的作用，这将有助于人们的人格成长和健康。

关键词:  自性  自我  自性化  人格  

Abstract

The Memoirs of a Survivor is an important novel for the writer, Doris Lessing, to think about the feelings in people’s hearts. Lessing once said that The Memoirs of a Survivor is a try for her own autobiography, which tells her own experience in the form of novel. This novel tells readers the growth of the protagonist, Emily, in the view of a narrator. In narrator’s life, Emily grows to be a talented and charming woman from a gingerly girl. But in the other side of the magical wall, it tells the experience and the great pain when Emily grows up, which the narrator has never had a chance to know.  

This thesis analyses from a psychological perspective how ego and self in the protagonist’s consciousness get integrated, and how the protagonist achieves individuation. So this paper will focus on the progress of the protagonist’s individuation, and study the roles individuation plays in human’s growth, which will help us to know more about personality’s growth. 

Keywords:  self  ego  individuation  personality   

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Doris Lessing and The Memoirs of a Survivor 1

1.2 Literature Review 2

1.3 Theoretical Framework 4

2 The Beginning of Individuation 7

2.1 Jung's View on Individuation 7

2.2 Ripping the Wound-Beginning of Narrator's Individuation 7

2.3 Differentiation-Beginning of Emily's Individuation 9

3 The Carrying on of Individuation 11

3.1 Growth in Personality 11

3.2 Transcendence and Integration 12

4 The Results of Individuation 14

4.1 The Final Challenge for the Narrator and Emily 14

4.2 The Growth of Personality for Both Emily and the Narrator 15

Conclusion 17

Acknowledgements 18

References 19