Outburst of Darkness—an Analysis of Sophy’s Hysterical Hallucination in Darkness Visible.docVIP

Outburst of Darkness—an Analysis of Sophy’s Hysterical Hallucination in Darkness Visible 摘 要：戈尔丁的作品多以揭示人性恶为主题。他在几部作品中都曾赋予主题人物以伴有幻象的癫痫症状。本文以其争议作品《黑暗昭昭》中邪恶代表苏菲的癫痫表现为研究对象，试图探讨这种伴有幻象的癫痫症状与主题揭示之间的关系。 关键词：人性恶主题；伴有幻象的癫痫症状；主题揭示；苏菲 Theory of Hysteria In his Studies on Hysteria, Freud elaborates it that many neuroses have their origins in deeply traumatic experiences which have occurred in the past experience of the patient which are now forgotten, omitted from consciousness. Hysteria is the unconscious operation of the memories that causes the trauma. Only when the incidents are repressed can they recur in the form of hysterical signs. In his theory the event that stimulates the symptoms itself is not the original cause, but just a reference to a deeper root. While for Freud what this “trigger” activates is not a hereditary predisposition, but rather the infantile experience. Based on this sense, Freud writes in The Aetiology of Hysteria, “The aetiology of hysteria is situational instead of genetic or physical.” He lead the research of hysteria from a physiological one toward broaching the possibility that is a social disease. In Darkness Visible, Sophy?s hysteria is different from the ones in the clinical sense. It has hallucination with the fit of hysteria. Their hallucination intertwines with symptoms of hysteria and speak directly for the root of hysteria— evil nature of man. Hysteria and hallucination were highly interwoven in the Sophy?s experiences and explain for each other. Sophy?s Manifestation of Hysterical Hallucination Similar to Simon in Lord of the Flies, Sophy suffers from hysteria from time to time, meanwhile, her hysteria breaks out simultaneously with hallucination. The symptoms grow step by step with her strengthening desire for evil. Sophy?s performance of hysterical hallucination is in her waiting for the kidnapped boy in the excitement of triumph. Then and there she sees the fire of explosion. Before she sees the boy, she falls into