“CORPSE OF DUST” (XÁC BỤI) SHORT STORY OF NGUYEN NGOC TU FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Vo Minh Nghia

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With the short story “Corpse of dust” (Xác bụi), Nguyen Ngoc Tu has created a new and impressive view of how to build a plot according to psychological characteristics. The story structure is a series of developments in the psychology of Diu's character revolving around the subtleties and sensitivity to many changing events of life. Using the psychoanalytic structure from the theory of psychoanalysis, the confusion in the protagonist's psychology is explained by the system of the “ID”, the “ego” and the “superego”. The psychological struggle of wrong times and deviations from moral norms is clearly exposed in the sympathetic gaze of readers. The Psychoanalytic Theory has helped those who come into contact with this short story to be touched and sad for the love, meaning and fidelity of the girls in the Southwest of Vietnam when in love.

 

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short stories, psychological structures, female characters, fidelity, sexuality, psychoanalysis, psychiatry

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejls.v5i2.560

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