目光的失去與主體的重生——用拉康的主體理論解讀奧康納的智血

1、沈陽(yáng)師范大學(xué)碩士學(xué)位論文目光的失去與主體的重生——用拉康的主體理論解讀奧康納的《智血》姓名：莫莉申請(qǐng)學(xué)位級(jí)別：碩士專(zhuān)業(yè)：英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言文學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師：王建會(huì)20100501The Gaze’s loss and Subject’s Rebirth iABSTRACT Flannery O’Connor is chiefly remembered as a brilliant American short story writer, whose

2、short story has been praised as a supreme model for modern literature. Her first novel Wise Blood has arrested comparatively less critical attention. However, significance of this novel has been re-scrutinized in recent

3、years by critics who study Flannery O’Connor’s biography and her unique works. They mostly studied the novel from the perspective of theme, such as religious salvation, grotesque characters, and violence. This thesis is

4、intended to re-interpret Wise Blood with the help of Lacanian theory, especially the Mirror theory, to find out the reason for the self-blinding of the protagonist, Hazel Motes, and his regaining spiritual peace. It is s

5、uggested in the thesis that the process of Hazel Motes’ self-blinding and his seemly regaining peace is actually a struggle of finding his subjectivity. Hazel Motes becomes a split subject due to his fighting between the

6、 corrupt reality and the patriarchal Symbolic Order. He refuses to accept the rules and restrictions of the Symbolic Order, yet he can not accept the corrupt modern life. So eventually, what he can do is only return to h

7、is imaginary field. To sum up, the imaginary world of Hazel Motes is destroyed by his symbolic law, symbolized by his mother and grandfather, while the symbolic world is destroyed by the war and the real world he can not

8、 accept until death. Thus, Hazel Motes chooses to alienate from both the symbolic and real world by self-blinding, while paradoxically gains his rebirth in the heart of the lord lady --- Mrs Flood, symbolized by the pin