Analyze Light in August by Lacan’s Theory of Mirror Stage

摘要

Being one of the greatest 20 thcentury writers, William Faulkner was rewarded with the Nobel Prize for literature in1949. For his whole life, he created many novels which were given high appraisal and remained popular up to today. Light in August, carrying as the representative of Faulkner’s novels, is not an exception as to the digging about individual’s formation about identity. In the light of Lacan’s theory of Mirror Stage, this paper tries to evaluate Faulkner’s discussion over the formation of individual’s identity with Joe Christmas as the example.