Abstract
Lu Xun wrote many reminiscences about his life, which concern all kinds of people whom he met at different life stages, including teachers, friends, disciples and family, but he wrote “not a single word” about his grandfather Zhou Fuqing. This essays holds that Lu Xun has been deliberately evading the issue of his grandfather’s imperial examination because it had led to a series of misfortunes and humiliations in Lu Xun’s early years. This essay further probes into the differences between Lu Xun and his grandfather in terms of ideological and cultural concepts, code of conduct, literary and aesthetic taste, and so on. In the end, the essay attempts to use Freud’s psychoanalysis to explore the deep psychological motivation of Lu Xun’s doing, and reveals that Lu Xun used his unique defense mechanism to realize “unconscious intentional oblivion” and bid complete farewell to the past.
First Page
23
Last Page
30
Recommended Citation
Gao, Junlin. 2021. "Behind “not a single word”: On the Relationship between Lu Xun and His Grandfather." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 41, (6): pp.23-30. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol41/iss6/6
