Eileen Chang was a legendary modern Chinese female writer. With her unique literary style and aloof personality, her choices in love and life were puzzling. One key to these mysteries was her dilemma within her family of origin. From the perspective of psychobiography, this study summarizes the dilemma as “escaping from her father’s house,” which consists of two sets of contradictions. She was initially caught in a conflict between “gaining her father’s appreciation” and “escaping her decadent father.” Subsequently, she faced another conflict between “turning to her independent mother who led a modern life” and “feeling disappointed by her cold and calculating mother.” She then repeated this dilemma in literature and love, respectively.
CHEN Zhimin
,
XIAO Shifu
. “Escaping From Her Father’s House”: A Psychobiography of Eileen Chang’s Life Choices[J]. Psychological Communications, 2024
, 7(4)
: 291
-295
.
DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.224038
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