声明
Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 A Brief Introduction to Kate Chopin and The Awakening
1.2 Literature Review
1.2.1 Studies Abroad
1.2.2 Studies at home
1.3 Theoretical Framework
1.3.1 What is psychoanalytic feminism about?
1.3.2 Lacan’s Mirror Stage Theory
1.3.3 Pre-Oedipal Stage
1.4 Thesis statement and Organization
Chapter Two Breaking the Mirror—the Process of Edna’s Awakening
2.1 Edna’s Repression and Total Loss under the Patriarchal Culture
2.2 Edna’s Physical,Sexual and Spiritual Awakening
2.2.1 A Critical Moment in Edna’s Awakening Process
2.2.2 Edna’s Physical Awakening
2.2.3 Edna’s Sexual Awakening
2.2.4 Edna’s Spiritual Awakening
2.3 A Deeper Analysis of Edna’s Awakening
Chapter Three Edna’s Doomed Suicide
3.1 Two Choices Impossible for Edna to Accept
3.1.1 As “An Angel in the house” like Ratignolle in Patriarchal Society
3.1.2 As an Independent and Lonely Woman like Reisz in the Patriarchal Society
3.2 Edna’s Death—her Final Embrace of the Pre-Oedipus Stage
Chapter Four Conclusion
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