文档介绍：Giving Consideration of Your Soul
—A Freudian Psychoanalytic Interpretation of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Xie Xiaomei(谢晓梅) Supervisor: Lecturer Ma Yue
(Foreign Language Department of Huizhou University, Huizhou, Guangdong,516007)
Abstract: the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is famous for its aestheticism and it’s the only novel of the writer. It tells a story of a good looking young man, who repose his soul into a picture of himself, finally made his life corrupt. This is the representative work of Oscar Wilde and the aestheticism. A lot of theses discuss this novel for its grate ess on aestheticism. We will analyze this novel on Freud’s psychoanalysis.
Key words: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde; Freudian Psychoanalytic
Ⅰ.Introduction
The novel The Picture of Dorian Gray tells a story among an artist, Basil, Lord Henry Wotton and a young man called Dorian Gray. The painter devoted his life on art and drawn a picture for Dorian Gray, a very good looking young man, which made both Dorian Gray and himself very famous. One day, Lord Henry, a dandy who enjoyed dissipated life style, happened to see the picture and asked to know Dorian Gray. But the artist refused. Because Dorian Gray was the soul of art, the representation about beauty in his eyes. This gave him the desire to protect Dorian Gray, as protecting the dream of art insi