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The Ideal Real
Paul Davies
其他書名
Beckett's Fiction and Imagination
出版Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1994
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPsychology / Creative Ability
ISBN08386351729780838635179
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uGMLs7f692sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Beckett heroes, whose experiences are discussed in this book, were conditioned by a "humanistic" education much like Beckett's; but they come to find that the self they were taught to see as their own is nonexistent. Having nothing in their acquired personality to cope with this crisis, Murphy, Molloy, Moran, Malone, and all that follow find themselves dying to their old self, to everything a Western liberal education could think of as self. Early on, Beckett saw clues to the situation in the work of Jung, the "mind doctor" who represented the opposite of the empirical tradition. Jung, like the esoteric schools, saw a potential human whose development was sometimes delayed or prevented by the very system the claimed to "educate" and "civilize" the personality. The existence of this potential self has been doubted by many modern thinkers, but Beckett's stories show "a soul denied in vain" since it is the enabler of all speech, whether apparently denying or affirming.