Aesthetic Analysis Of Literary Dreams

This dissertation begins with hackling human's cognition phases toward daily dreams, namely, the course of notions, followed up with the summary of the aesthetic potential of daily dreams, the exploration of transitional modes from daily dreams to literary dreams, namely, the symbolization principles of daily dreams. It sums up the literary dream's characteristics of representation, fantasticism and authenticity dig the literary values of literary dreams. It can be seen from the above that literary dreams are a kind of "meaningful form" with a fantastic representation mode and unique communication function and an art character with a relatively independent aesthetic object. This dissertation mainly engages in the aesthetic analysis of literary dreams.The 1st chapter of the dissertation hackles human's four cognition phases toward daily dreams. In the phase of obscuration, people were unable to distinguish dreams from daily realities, thus dreams were chaos entangled together with daily realities. Based on this notion and influenced by the theory of divinity, human developed mysterious notions about dreams, thinking dreams could function as omens. But with the growth of human's understanding and practical abilities, human came to be cognizant that dreams were merely normal psychological and spiritual activities of human. Human not only interpreted dreams in various rational ways, but also recorded and created a large number of dreams in literature works. In modern years, people's cognition to dreams reached the unprecedented stature. People explore the Arcanum of dreams with scientific eyesight and methods, of which the most influential belongs to depth psychologist Freud and Jung.The 2nd chapter explores the aesthetic potential of dreams. The dreams transform various emotional desires, psychological and physical stimulation as well as some abstract cognition into concrete and sensate imago. The dreaming activities can surface in the brain, and these activities and imago are usually accompanied by true feelings and emotional experience. Dreams are unconscious presentation of dreamland, and theiractivities usually breach the realistic principle and physical law, appearing illogical. Seen consciously, dreams are manifested by the characters of'free styles and fantasticism. For hundreds of years people have been interpreting dreams. The ancient Chinese ways of interpreting dreams, the way of Freud's interpreting dreams and the way of Jung's interpreting dreams are the three pretty influential methods of denoting dreams. The 8 ancient Chinese ways of interpreting dreams can be divided into 3 kinds as direct explanation, indirect interpretation (including symbolization, comparison, analogy, denotion, oneiromancy, partial tone, etc) and razzmatazz. Freud thought that those dream manifestations symbolize two sexes, and Jung mainly interpreted dreams from the theory of collective unconsciousness and archetype, thinking that archetypes usually appear in dreams in the form of anamorphosis. Jung also thought that dreams carried wisdom which is ?often the manifestation of human's being instructed by collective unconsciousness. The construction of dream's meaning makes dream forms with contents to be manifested. Such factors of dreams constitute the aesthetic potential of dreamland as the mode of imago manifestation, irrational free style and dream's meaning.The 3rd chapter induces the symbolization principles of dreams. People narrate dreams for specific purposes which are related to the needs of reality and forecast analysis and catharsis, expression and appreciation. Dreams are irrational and any narration of dreams is a course of conveying messages in symbols, thus in narration, the narrator conforms to the principle of meaning and logic. What's more, daily dreams take the form of imago, so in narration. Characteristics and intension principles should be followed when the imago of dreamland is translated into language codes. Once narrated, daily dreams are symbolized and fixed, which offers the most fundamental blueprint for...