The Psychology Of First Love About The Adolescent Girls In Stefan Zweig’s Novels

Stefan Zweig is one of the three most famous novelettists of Europe in the20thcentury, who is dubbed as “soul hunter” by Roman Roland for his writing style is apt topsychological realism. In addition, he is adept in portraying female images, and expresseshumanitarian sympathy to the female suffering fate. Therefore, Golgi has high praised himas “the writer who knows women best”. Among all the female images in Stefan Zweig’snovels, the adolescent girls play an important part; while among all the works involvedwith the adolescent girls, there are many depictions about their first love, which is theremarkable event in the adolescence. In first love, their souls are filled with variedpsychological activities, which can be classified as eagerness, fear and anxiety.The psychology of eagerness is the primary part of first love psychology. Theadolescent girls show great will of love, volitional action, and unconscious eagerness intheir first love, which demonstrates a psychological desire for love. According toAmerican humanistic psychologist Maslow’s need hierarchy theory, the need of love andits deficiency motivation are the root of the adolescent girls’ eagerness psychology, whosedeveloping process is closely related with the triggering of deficiency motivation.The psychology of fear is the second important part of first love psychology. Theadolescent girls show either direct fear or unconscious fear in their fist love. FollowingRussian psychologist Yury Shyelbateih’s fear theory, what the adolescent girls sufferbelongs to “internal fear”, which dates back to “Victorian morality”—a “hypocriticalmorality” prevailing in Europe in the19th century and early20th century.The psychology of anxiety is the third important part of fist love psychology. Theseadolescent girls’ anxiety psychology, which is closely correlated with psychologicalconflict, is strikingly performed as neurotic anxiety. According to the Americanpsychologist R. Plutchik’s emotional three dimensional structure, anxiety derives from“eagerness–fear” psychological conflict; according to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory,neurotic anxiety generates from “suppress–resist” patterned irrational passionpsychological conflict; following existential psychology, anxiety arises from “free-notfree” patterned self-existently psychological conflict. The above mentioned threeviewpoints activate the adolescent girls’ anxiety psychology.Stefan zweig draws lessons from freud’s subconscious theory. He pays more attentionto the psychological reality of the adolescent girls in their first love, depicting theadolescent girl image with the characteristics of irrational reality. The tendency of psychological realism in Stefan zweig’s creation is closely correlated with the rising offreud’s Psychoanalytic Theory and Existential Philosophy.