Quest for Happy Life under Positive Freedom – An Interpretation on the Theme of Freedom in the >Golden Notebook<, Master thesis [在能动自由下寻求幸福生活 - 论《金色笔记》中的自由主题], English Language and Literature, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China 2009, 71 pp. [Application of Fromm's theories to art]

  • 多丽丝•莱辛(1919-- )是当今英国文坛上颇负盛名的女作家,2007年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。于1962年出版的《金色笔记》是莱辛的代表作。本文运用美国思想家埃里希•弗洛姆在1941年出版的《逃避自由》中提出的关于>自由<的观点对《金色笔记》的自由主题加以分析。自由女性并不自由。现代人的内心充满焦虑、不安,精神上的困惑促使看似自由的人陷入消极的自由状态。小说中的主要人物在意识到自己处在消极自由状态后利用各种逃避机制摆脱精神上的枷锁,但结果却适得其反。这说明人们只有返璞归真到无私的爱和自发性工作后才能获得能动自由以及达到内心的宁静获得幸福。本文通过这一视角来理解这部作品,旨在揭示其现实意义以及社会价值。
  • Doris Lessing (born 1919) is one of the most outstanding British female writer and the Noble Prize winner of 2007. The Golden Notebook which was published in 1962 is her masterpiece. The thesis clearly shows the theme of the novel-freedom, on the basis of Erich Fromm’s views on freedom put forward in Escape from Freedom 1941. Free women are far away from positive freedom. And modern men feel anxious and restless in their mind. Mental puzzlement makes the acclaimed free women fall into negative freedom. After realizing their negative freedom, the characters in the novel use all kinds of mechanisms to get rid of their mental burdens, but all that they did were in vain. Human beings should accept their state actively, love the world and people without rewards and work spontaneously in order to get happiness.– Using this new perspective, I want to reveal the novel’s social value and realistic meaning.

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Author:Liwei Zhao
Document Type:Dissertations
Language:Chinese
Year of first Publication:2009
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:no copy existent / keine Kopie vorhanden
IdNo:Zhao_Liwei_2009
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Dissertations / Dissertationen
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Dissertations / Dissertationen
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