The Conflicts Between Ego And L’autre(Otherness)

The Hours is the masterpiece of American contemporary novelist Michael Cunningham who have earned great reputation by brilliant achievements on complicated construction, elegance narrative skills and especially his imitation of "Stream Of Consciousness" which writing skill is frequently observed in Virginia Woolf’s works. What’s more, beyond those compliments above, it did no less focus on theses of female psychic predicaments and academic probes into somewhat "meaning of life" questions while arrangements for such philosophy issues of public’s schedule than re-arouse those universal attachments and approvals on Woolf’s evergreen works from audience as they once were.From text structure analysis, there are three heroines who live in different time and space, but there stories are well joined. The delicate coincidence and the structure indicated the consideration and explore on psychological phenomena and Field of L’Autre (Otherness) of writer. By adoption of Inter subjectivity Theory organized by Jacques Lacan, this paper tried to discuss the common issues on psychic predicament by analyzing heroines one by one.Chapter I explains the triple vexation of Laura Brown, the housewife in Los Angles of the Mid Twentieth Century, as the failure of self-image establishment in the Field of L’Autre, collapse of self-illusion in giant one as society discipline, and dilemma in affection and sex.Chapter II tells the Truth of Desire through the analysis on suture of injuries in subject of Clarissa Vaughan, the editor in New York city, by the assistance of former lover Richard’s Presence in Late Twentieth Century, as the result of study on source of analogous passion threw by Clarissa and Mrs. Dalloway created by Woolf towards life.Chapter III refers the final actress:Writer Woolf, as the dominator of her two pilgrims, Laura and Clarissa, in psychological aspects by unconsciously leading their individual lives as proceedings even concerning their coherent will. What’s more, the defiance of eternal definition alluded by Laura, then the psychological phenomena alluded by Clarissa, the unreasonable passion of Woolf to virtual life, mutually solved the puzzle of Woolf’s suicide with the reply of "Choice.’The conflicts between Ego and L’Autre(Otherness), the pursuit of absolute liberty and the favour and overwhelming passion trilaterally drive the audience to "mad", then provide a poetic avenue through the portrays of Humanity For Free beneath such gorgeous structure.