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中文题目: 《欢乐之家》中莉莉·巴特命运的衰落——追寻自我过程中超越同一性危机的失败
外文题目: The Decline of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth – The Failure to Transcend the Identity Crisis in the Process of Self-Discovery
系别英语学院
专业英语(翻译)
年级 2006级
学号 200601010031
学生姓名马晓瑞
指导教师张从成
结稿日期 2010年5月10日
四川外语学院教务处制
《欢乐之家》中莉莉•巴特命运的衰落——追寻自我过程中超越同一性危机的失败
摘要:美国现代女作家伊迪丝·华顿是20世纪初现实主义文学代表人物之一,她在作品中塑造的众多女性形象尤其受到西方女权主义者的推崇,被认为是西方女性主义的先驱作家。《欢乐之家》是华顿的成名作。故事以作者熟悉的纽约上流社会为背景,描述了女主人公莉莉•巴特寻求嫁给有钱人,但由于无法超越内心的矛盾,她始终找不到心灵的处所,最终在极度的孤独中莉莉结束了自己年轻的生命。
本论文运用美国精神分析学家埃里克·赫·埃里克森的同一性危机理论,对《欢乐之家》中莉莉的命运进行分析,认为她在社会生活中屡受挫折以及她最终结束自己生命是莉莉的早期生活经历使她无法超越同一性危机的后果。华顿虽和莉莉在成长过程中有相似的经历,但凭着对文学的热忱和执着,她寄托了自己孤独的心灵于文学,成功地超越了同一性危机。本论文作者希望能从新的视角分析《欢乐之家》这部作品的女主角的精神世界,加深对伊迪丝·华顿艺术创作的理解。
关键词:精神分析;埃里克·赫·埃里克森;同一性危机; 超越同一性危机失败
The Decline of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth – The Failure to Transcend the Identity Crisis in the Process of Self-Discovery
Abstract
Modern woman writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is one of the representatives of Realism Literature in the early 20th century in the United States. The numerous female images she created in her works especially appeal to Western feminists, and she was regarded as one of the precursors of the Western feminist writers. The House of Mirth is her first well-known piece of work, published in 1905. The story, written under the background of the New York upper-class society which Wharton is quite familiar with, depicts the protagonist Lily Bart’s tragedy of dying in her early age as she cannot e the conflicts inside herself in the process of searching for a potential rich man to marry.
This paper analyzes the final destiny of Lily Bart under the guidance of identity crisis theory of American psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson. Those numerous setbacks in her social life and her final death are mainly due to Lily’s early life which results in her failure to go beyond the identity crisis. Wharton’s early experiences are quite similar with those of Lily’s, yet thanks to her passion and determination about lite