On Saul Bellow’s Jewish Complex

Saul Bellow,the famous Jewish American writer,is the most outstanding Ammerican writer after Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner died. Saul Bellow wrote many great books all of his life,his masterpiece is the novel "Herzog",In addition,he is the author of nine novels,six medium and short novels,Essays,and Travel notes. The heros of Saul Bellow’s work constitute a symbol of human pursue transcendence of the spirit world.These symbolic meaning characters and the deep philosophical speculation made Saul Bellow get a huge honour.He won National Book Prize three times,International Literature Prize one times.France awarded him a Literature and Art Knight Medal in January1968.In this year,he had won Jewish Heritage Prize as well.The Nobel Prize came in1976to Saul Bellow for his"humanistic understanding and exquisite analysis of the contemporary culture".In China mainland,Jewish element of Philip Roth、Bernard·marat nazr Mohammed、Isaac singh’s workhave been developed studied.But Jewish element of Saul Bellow’s work is still a few people studying it,many works just note the Jewish backgrounds of his works.and they didn’t go deep into Jewish elements.Of course,Jewish elements in Bellow’s works are not as obvious as other Jewish writers’work.and also Bellow didn’t want to be considered as a Jewish write.He ever sai" Never did I realize that I’m a Jewish writer when I was writing.i just know I’m Saul Bellow,I never try to judaise myseif."Bellow’s words didn’t mean that he shied away his Jewish identity and Jewish descent deliberately.So he said"I was born in a Jewish family.but I’m American.i have Jewish descent,had Jewish life experience,but also had American life experience".Now we know Saul Bellow just didn’t hope that the readers only pay attention to the Jewish elements in his works.and he hope the readers should pay more attention to the human general truth in his works.Nevertheless.we can’t ignored the truth that Jewish tradition and culture is Saul Bellow’s source of art creation.The paper researches on Saul Bellow through case study by the way of critique like cultural anthropology, myth prototype etc. and based on the complex theory of Swiss analysis psychologists Carl Gustav Jung. Analysis of the personality of the jewish complex psychological structure, explores the reasons, and reveals the life of jewish complex and the profound influence of the creation, the last of the paper also analyzes the worldwide significance of Bellow’s jewishness elementsThe paper consists of three parts, the first part has introduced Saul Bellow’s "Jewish complex" and its causes. First, the article introduces the Jung’s complex theory, and points out that the complex is one of the deep unconscious psychology collected all sorts of impulse and emotion, it comes from the collective unconscious. According to the theory, it fully discovers subconscious of jewish complex and opinion from Saul Bellow. From the family background of Saul Bellow and the influence of the spirit’s case, the weak people under the quilt culture and its pacing factor of jewishness, it proves that the development of Saul Bellow’s "jewish complex" has experienced the early unconscious, to the subsequent is being understatement, and in the end becomes the exteriorization.The second part elaborates the "Jewish complex" emerging in Saul Bellow’s daily life. First the article introduces Saul Bellow’s filiation, it points out that Saul Bellow as a jewish son, inevitably impacted with spirit prototype of father and son’s conflict in the collective unconscious, in his life, his father who he is loving and hating has the image of the god. Next, Saul Bellow shows the loneliess, wander feeling, and fear of crime the same as the mentality of other jews.The third part mentions that the Saul bellow’s "Jewish complex" is reflected in his works. The article is using prototype theory to analyze his works in the characters and the traditional inheritance of the motif of biblical literature. In the first prototype characters, the name, background and experience of heroes in Saul Bellow’s works has much relationship with biblical literature, Saul Bellow’s works created many images of women, most of these women are an abomination, and seem to be is a man forever foil, actually this is the traditional jewish opinion, Bellow takes this opinion and ask a women with the perfect characters according to it. Next, in the prototype subject, his writing of almost all the novels are fraught with a theme of the father and the son. Hereinafter, Saul Bellow didn’t take the cultural life of the jews as a direct expression of the object and the described focus, but the image of the jewish elements for literature will eliminate the potential medium to jewish national peculiar historical cultural concepts as a religious experience of literature because of a structure, expresses the respects from the symbol of specific and metaphor, metaphor and forming of father and son theme; In the bible, guilt redemption is a very important concept of theology, but in the history of the jews in the concept of culture to surmount the theology and became a kind of typical value of life, become the jews one universal culture motif, in Saul bellow’s many works. They can find this motif, such as "Victims","Henderson the Rain King", etc.; Saul bellow novels include another jewishness topic, ie positive to face the realityThe conclusion analyzes the worldwide significance of Bellow’s jewishness element.