解读《巴比特》中的快感与罪感

THE ANALYSIS ON THE PLEASANT SENSATION AND THE GUILTY SENSATION IN THE NOVEL BABBITT

《巴比特》是美国作家辛克莱·刘易斯的代表作,亦是他诺贝尔文学奖的获奖作品。小说中,以巴比特为代表的人物过着"表面风光、内心彷徨"的生活,他们寻求各种方式为自己空虚乏味的生活制造快感,然而在片刻愉悦之后,却又产生深深的且无法摆脱的负罪感。本文主要运用弗洛伊德的精神分析理论,解读在商业文化背景下大众快感与罪感的来源,由此揭示商业社会中人们在享受快感、经历罪感之后,最终陷入一种无助感状态。

Babbitt is Sinclair Lewis' s masterpiece,and also his Nobel Literary winning works. In the novel,the Babbitts live a life that shining outside and anxious inside. They pursue every way to make pleasant sensation for their boring life. However,after the moment of happiness,they have deeply sense of guilty. The paper mainly applies S. Freud's psycho- analysis theory,discusses the source of people's pleasant sensation and sense of guilty in the commercial culture,and reveal they will finally immerse themselves into the state of helpless in such background.