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The Missing Selfhood in the Assignation

Author: MaoYan
Tutor: ZengZhuQing
School: Central South University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Transcendental self Subjectivity Alienation Rationality Psychological analysis
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2007
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Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prolific writers of contemporary American society. She is very interested in the psychological level of diversification and concerned about vulnerable groups feel the pain due to social injustice. As a woman writer, she is committed to the performance of women to seek self-process. Oates's writing style is diverse, but their works are directed at the problems of modern society: the individual and society, self and others, material and spiritual crisis in the formation of sharp conflicts and confrontation, and the anxiety of the people in this environment , despair, loneliness, and helpless state of mind. \But this experimental work, Oates defined as micro-fiction. In this work, due to the interaction between alienation and fragmentation of social life in the pursuit of self transcendental lost its way, felt the emptiness of life. \From the point of view of the post-modern feminist \Transcendent self in a rational society, aggressive and exclusive sexual repression self-Africa rational beings, and women's self to become subservient to men. In the study of the state of modern society, people lost Freud and the Frankfurt School applied to self-analysis. Instrumental rationality to suppress the non-rational part of the personality, the superego demand lost balance, self-adjustment function is thus destroyed disunited, can not harmonious development of personality. Moreover, due to the exclusion of non-rational, women's self can only be male interpretation. In the view of feminist deconstruction of subject theory, from a male point of departure is not conducive to the development of the female self. Moreover, the Frankfurt School also ignore the critical ability of the public. On the issue of the establishment of subjectivity, Patricia Woti, the concept of selective subjects. This paper argues that to overcome rational society exclusive conducive to establishing a healthy and complete self. The first industrial society illusory surface and self-split condition analysis, which questioned the authority of reason. Because of the prosperity of Western civilization rational under the guidance of rational determination of authority in human life. Of standardization and unification of industrial society, people's lives are increasingly unreal, but also to their personality gradually split. Rational authority has been questioned. This article discusses the transcendental process of the pursuit of self in a rational society lose their status. First, as a spontaneous self-expression, the transcendental self out of contact with the community, and social alienation. Be suppressed due to self irrational, transcendental self in a state of self-alienation. Second, as the opposite of men, women under the authority of the repressed being marginalized, they can not be equal and free to express themselves, so there is no subjectivity, total self is lost. So women want to get rid of paternal authority by running away from home, in order to establish the true self. Third, the mutual understanding of people's social relations no longer work, the family as a link between the husband and wife lost its original role, the relationship between husband and wife is increasingly empty and cold. Finally, we talk about self-denial of rational authority. Patricia Waugh that is conducive to an accurate understanding of their own, new understanding of the rational development of a mature and healthy self, this depends on collective self-understanding. Oates social harm and insult people full of sympathy. And that artists have a duty of care to the world of human ethics. \

The Missing Selfhood in the Assignation

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