-
Title:
Analysis
of
the
Female
consciousness
by
Freud
Personality Theory
Abstraction:
《
Cat
in
the
rain
》
is
one
masterpiece
of
female
consciousness
by
Hemingway.
Author
explore
the
motivation
of
the
heroine
’
s inward
desire to make herself independent, change herself
and
alter
the
present
situation
by
means
of
Sigmund
Freud
Personality
Theory
–
ID, Ego, Superego. And
then reflect the awakening of female
consciousness.
Key words:
《
Cat in the
rain
》
，
Female
consciousness
, ID
，
Ego
，
Superego
，
Freud Personality Theory
Introduction:
Mentioned
American
writer,
Hemingway,
The
unyielding
man
cross
people
’
s
mind
immediately:
A
man
can
be
destroyed but never can
be defeated.
[1]
The extensive War theme
and Hero image in his works give him an
image of adoring male but
ignore
female.
The
domestic
and
overseas
research
scholars
have
made
an
in-depth
study
of
Hemingway
’
s
female
consciousness.
In
fact
，
though Hemingway was well-known by his
―
Tough
man
‖
, but
he did
not ignore female at all. He has manifested the
intense female
consciousness
in
his
inchoate
short
story,
also
paid
boundless
attention, like < Up In Michigan >
<
Hills Like White Elephants
>
、
in
the
rain>,
All
of
those
works
mirror
female
issues,
care
about the female destiny and which show
the pains and wars from
the
sexual
conflicts.
in
the
rain>
is
the
representative
masterpiece
of Hemingway and which is caring much about female
consciousness and survival.
Then author, I, will get deep into the
heroine
’
s inward activity
through
Freud
Personality
Theory
to
find
out
the
source
of
her
awakening Female
Consciousness.
1
、
The short
description of the fiction:
This
fiction
mainly
talk
about
that
there
is
a
pair
of
American
couple
who
are
traveling
in
Italy,
but
for
the
sake
of
the
bad
weather,
they can only stay at a hotel. In the hotel, the
husband
read
on
bed,
the
American
wife
stood
at
the
window
looking
out.
[2]
And
see
a
cat
by
chance
crouched
under
one
of
the
dripping green tables so that it would
not be dripped on. By the
sense of
compassion, the wife decides to embrace back that
cat.
But it turns out to be that the
cat disappear when she goes down,
and
when she back their apartment disappointed, she
looks over
herself in the mirror
falling into a reverie, full of desires. At the
end
of
the
story,
the
hotel-
keeper
ask
his
maid
to
send
a
big
tortoise-
shell cat.
What kinds of intense fight
is the heroine undergoing, and
how to
explain her inner life by
Freud
’
s Personality Theory?
2
、
Freud 3P
Theory
：
Freud put forward the
triple personality
structure
in
his
work
and
Ego>,
he
regarded
as
personality was composed by ID
Ego
、
Superego.
2.1
ID
：
ID
is
the
most
original
,
subconscious
，
and
non-rational mental structure. It is
filled with intense
impulsion
of
instinct
and
desire
which
is
controlled
by
―
Pleasure
Principle
‖
, pursuing
satisfaction blindly.
【
2
】
2.2
Ego
：
Ego is
affected by consciousness system, acting
according to reality principle. It does
not only
uses
most
of
vigor
to
control
and
constrain
the
non-rational
impulsion,
but
also
give
suitable
satisfaction sinuou
sly.
【
3
】
2.3
Superego
：
Superego
is
a
middle-high
ranking,
moral, super-ego
mental structure of personality.
【
4
】
In
theory,
Freud
describes
ego,
id
and
superego
as
a
psychological
process
which
is
mutual
independence
and
mutual
contradiction.
Reaching
a
subtle
balance
by
conflicts.
【
5
】
3
、
The
reflection of Freud Personality Theory in the
fiction
：
Many scenes in the
story shows that the functions of triple
personality of the heroine.
3.1 The restrained
ego
：
One can imagine that a
couple go
for a travel, the hotel they
lodged is that
“
There were
only two
Americans stopping at the
hotel. They did not know any of the
people
they
passed
on
the
stairs
on
their <
/p>
room.
”
【
6
】
And
moreover,
in
such
a
bad
weather
they
were
suffering.
In
the
time
like
that,
man
and
wife
should
have
spent
time
doing
some
funny
things
or
having
a
lively
chatting.
Nevertheless,
the man lied on the bed reading book
and paying no attention
to his wife.
When the wife came to the window aimlessly, she
discovered a cat hiding a wringing
green table to protect itself
from the
rain. By instinct, she wanted to bring that poor
kitty
back.
In that way, why
did the wife want the cat so badly? From
Freud
’
s views,
the power condition is determinate by that spirit
energy
division
and
transfer
of
the
personality.
A
human
essence
and
behavior
depends
on
his
power
condition.
If
the
energy
still rest on ID, then his behavior have
impulsiveness.
[7]
人
The ID in
one
’
s personality totally is
unconscious, it is
mainly
composed
of
libido,
including
all
original,
genetic
instinct and desire.
It abides by
―
Pleasure
Principle
‖
to compel
human-being to satisfy their desires in
the cockles of the heart.
[8] By means
of the heroine
’
s word,
“
I’
m going down
and get
that
kitty
‖
,
―
Oh, I wanted it so much, I
wanted a kitty
‖
【
.
8
】
She
still goes out for that cat even in
such a heavy rainy day, when
his
husband says,
“
I
’<
/p>
ll do it
”
, however
the wife says,
“
No,
I’
ll
get it. The
poor kitty is trying to keep dry under a table
”
【
9
】
By
this
way,
it
is
obvious
that
the
wife
’
s
ID
make
herself
believe that she can do it by herself,
and only when she gets
that
cat
can
she
get
rid
of
vapidity.
Through
Hemingway
’
s
description to the cat,
“
outside right under their
window a cat
was crouched under one of
the dripping green tables. The cat
was
trying to make herself so compact that she would
not be
dripped on
”
【
10
】
And compared
with the situation of heroine,
they are
both pathetic, and what else differences are
there. In
such
a
boring
vocation,
the
women
needs
the
attention
and
love of his man in her deep heart.
However, what the fact, it is
―
The
husband
went
on
reading,
lying
propped
up
with
the
pillows
at the foot of the bed
”
，
【
11
】
‖
. It is
“对她不闻不问。
在男权社会的
现实中，女主人公超我的力量过于强大，以