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Psychoanalysis of Songlian in Wives and Concubines

Wives and Concubines is a miniature of Chinese women's struggles in deep courtyard. Because of the oppression of cultural power and the lack of awareness of women's resistance, Songlian became a poor woman of mad from a pure university student. By use of psychoanalysis, her sexual desire, anxiety and irreconcilable conflict between ego and id in her subconscious doomed her tragic ending.   

  1. School of Humanities, Yunan University of Nationalities, Kunming  650031, China
  • Received:2011-11-23 Online:2012-01-15 Published:2012-01-15

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Abstract:

Wives and Concubines is a miniature of Chinese women's struggles in deep courtyard. Because of the oppression of cultural power and the lack of awareness of women's resistance, Songlian became a poor woman of mad from a pure university student. By use of psychoanalysis, her sexual desire, anxiety and irreconcilable conflict between ego and id in her subconscious doomed her tragic ending.

Key words: sexual desire, anxiety, sense of death

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