创伤视角下的《追风筝的人》——国殇家恨与灵魂救赎

A Study on The Kite Runner from the Perspective of Traumatic Theory——National Martyr,Family Hatred and Soul Redemption

在《追风筝的人》中,卡勒德·胡赛尼以阿富汗的苦难史为背景,讲述了一个爱与救赎的故事。个体的苦难在动荡的社会背景下被无限放大,主人公父子在经历了沉痛的创伤事件之后,选择以逃避和抗拒来对待创伤记忆,但却依然无法摆脱创伤记忆。创伤理论认为,只有将过去与现在相融合才能治愈创伤。从这一理论出发探讨了小说中阿米尔和爸爸的个体创伤以及创伤的治愈。阿米尔通过讲述和融合最终成功地从创伤中恢复,而爸爸却始终抗拒过去的历史,无法连接过去与现在,书写完整的个人历史。

In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini tells a story about love and redemption with the background of the bitter history of Af- ghanistan. The suffering of individual is amplified infinitely in the turbulent social background. The two protagonists of the novel, father and son, alter experiencing the bitter traumas, choose to treat the traumatic memory with avoidance and rejection, hut they are still haunted by them. According to the traumatic theory, only by integrating the past and the present can traumas be healed. This paper dis- cusses the individual traumas of Amir and Baba and the healing of their traumas from this perspective. In the end, Amir recovers from the trauma successfully by telling it out and integration, while Baba keeps rejecting his past and fails to integrate the past and the pres- ent and create the complete personal history.