原生家庭与自我重塑——创伤理论视阈下解读《你当像鸟飞往你的山》

Original Family and Self-reshaping——An Analysis of Educated:A Memoir from the Perspective of Trauma Theory

《你当像鸟飞往你的山》是美国作家塔拉·韦斯特弗的处女作,小说以回忆录的形式讲述了主人公塔拉在极端的原生家庭影响下,遭受心理创伤,陷入自我迷失,通过自我努力摆脱了旧日的心理桎梏,解放了心灵,在痛苦的涅槃中实现自我重塑。本文运用西格蒙德·弗洛伊德和朱迪斯·赫尔曼的创伤理论,对主人公塔拉原生家庭遭受的创伤,再凭借努力摆脱原生家庭的束缚,最终实现创伤复原进行详细的解读,旨在揭示原生家庭对个体成长发展的重要性,并探讨遭受创伤的个体通过自我构建积极地寻求创伤复原、实现自我重塑的方式。

Educated:A Memoir is the first novel of American writer Tara Westover,the novel in the form of memoirs tells that the story of the protagonist,Tara suffered psychological trauma,lost in self under the influence of extreme original family,and got rid of the psychological shackles of bygone days,liberated the mind,achieved self-reshaping in a painful nirvana through self efforts.By integrating the trauma theories of Sigmund Freud and Judith Herman,the paper will provide a thorough explanation of the trauma experienced by the protagonist Tara’s original family and her subsequent recovery from the trauma through her efforts to rid herself of her original family,which aims to reveal the importance of the original family to the development of individual growth,and to explore the ways that traumatized individuals actively seek recovery from trauma and realize self-reshaping through self-construction.