Cultural Unconscious And L2 Writer’s Identity Construction—A Case Study On Ha Jin

Abstract

By juxtaposing the cultural unconscious with relevant psychoanalytic concepts by Freud, Jung and Lacan, this article attempts to expound the connotation of the cultural unconscious from the levels of individual, collective and linguistic sign unconscious. Then it proposes a model to discuss the relationship between the cultural unconscious and identity construction, which may provide a new perspective for the theoretical framework of L2 writer's identity construction. Based on the model, the author makes a case study on an American Chinese L2 writer, Ha Jin. Ha Jin's fiction reveals the cultural unconscious manifested in his writing and reveals his psychological mechanism of identity construction in the conflict and integration of Chinese and Western cultures.

[Retracted] Mental Writing and Mental Health and Cultural Identity in Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction

“…In her writing, she uses the power of doubt, imagination, and enthusiasm to examine the era of divided civilizations in the twentieth century with di erent characters. Her works have a wide range of subjects and involve many types of content, especially the 20th-century turbulent social background and the description of reality, which vividly re ects the characteristics of "cultural identity exploration" [1]. e ve-part novel Canopus (1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983) is the representative work of Lessing's science ction and an important part of its entire creation, depicting the space inhabitants in various terrible disasters and su erings in the evolutionary segment of the universe (especially the fringe group) cultural identity and other living conditions.…”