Theory Of Chu Kwang-Tsien's Aesthetic Thought In The Psychology Of Tragedy

The Psychology of Tragedy is Chu Kwang-tsien's doctoral dissertation when he was studying at Strasbourg university,and it is his first academic work.In the preface of the Chinese translation of The Psychology of Tragedy suggested that it was first work is the starting point of his literary thoughts and the bud of Literary Psychology and Poetics.This is the first monograph about the western theory of tragedy in China,which fills in the blank of the theory of tragedy.What it described in this book makes people look at tragedy aesthetics from a new perspective,it has creative significance to the development of Chinese aesthetics.The Psychology of Tragedy written by Chu Kwang-tsien makes a comprehensive and systematic analysis from the aspects of the occurrence and decline of tragedy,the pleasure of tragedy and the spirit of tragedy.In the process of analysis,Chu Kwang-tsien inherited the traditional Chinese cultural and ideology the important viewpoints of the western tragedy theory since ancient Greece,then he inherited critically and integrated both of them.In the meanwhile,Chu Kwang-tsien has put forward many original theories of tragedy and a holistic view of tragedy theory in his potential book.By analyzing The Psychology of Tragedy written by Chu Kwang-tsien,we can get a widely applicable and inclusive theoretical system of tragedy.While analyzing the theory of occurrence and decline of tragedy and the theory of the pleasure of tragedy,The Psychology of Tragedy delves into the transcendental meaning of tragedy on the ultimate level of life,and expounds the view of the redemption of life in the tragic theory.Chu Kwang-tsien pointed in his book The Psychology of Tragedy that tragedy not only shows the human drive of self-transcendence,but also accumulates the power of inspiring human resistance.The Psychology of Tragedy is of great practical significance.Though the tragedy is always permeated with a deep sense of destiny,it never flinches or dejected,instead,it highly praised the arduous efforts and the heroic resistance.