Psychological Structure And Novel

The works of Mo Yan is a much studied topic. Within the opposing structures of beauty and ugliness, life and death, urban and rural lives, males and females, rationality and irrationality, the center and the surrounding, the nobles and the commoners, civilization and nature, progress and tradition, reason and emotion, Apollo and Dionysus, the mainstream research empathizes the latter aspect.This dissertation analyzes the unconscious imagery in Mo Yan’s novels. The analysis of unconscious imagery may adopt different methodologies. The dissertation chooses the framework of analytical psychology pioneered by Carl Gustav Jung and the core concepts included are:personality types, trick stars, Anima, personas, the great mother, the great father, initiation, regression and self.Through the above mentioned methodology, the dissertation pursues to testify the following two points: First, the opposition of the commoners and the noble as well as Apollo and Dionysus (Bacchus) in Mo Yan’s works reflects the dilemma and complementariness of the writer’s consciousness and unconsciousness and thus his own psychic totality. Second, Mo Yan’s novel is the process of self realization and individuation of himself.In addition, this dissertation investigates similarities and differences between myth, legends and folk tales and Mo Yan’s works to explore the continuity with and rupture from the traditional Chinese culture as well as the Western influence on his work. Ever since human beings become aware of the concept of "self", civilization continues to progress through constant tempering. However, we may have overlooked the crucial point that consciousness will lose its vitality when disconnected from unconsciousness. For people in the21st Century, it is a meaningful deed to leave the fortress of consciousness and return to unconsciousness as well as to reexamine the complementary relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness.