沉默的羔羊中克拉丽斯·斯达林的创伤分析-trauma analysis of clarice starling in silent lamb.docxVIP

Chapter two concentrates on Clarice Starling’s traumatic symptoms and the effects of trauma on her. Her father died when she was in her childhood. Her mother, unable to afford to raise the three children, was forced to send her to her aunt’s home. When she lived with her aunt, one morning she suddenly heard the screaming of the lamb that was being slaughtered. She made a decision to take it away, but she failed, and she began to live in an orphanage as well. From then on, the screaming sound of the lamb has never stopped at night. Therefore, Starling frequently experiences a series of traumatic events. She often unconsciously reexperiences the intrusive and repetitive images, thoughts and feelings. Those experiences are so horrible that she suffers a great deal both in body and in mind. She tries her best to avoid anything or anyone that will remind her of the traumatic experiences. Psychologically, she feels indelibly guilty for living due to the death of her father and started to bear the stamp of trauma in her childhood. Chapter three mainly concentrates on Starling’s recovery. Symptoms of trauma and their effects fill her with pain; she endeavors to recover from trauma by means of seeking the lost love from her father by means of study and work. On the one hand, in Starling’s memories of her childhood, she consciously or unconsciously uses the situation that the lambs were killed to conceal the deeper and traumatic experience that her father died. The basic impression of her father is a fuzzy image in Starling’s memory. In the process of her growth, when she was in difficulties, she tries her best to find out the inherent shelter of the father and to rummage the one who can replace the role of the father in real life. For Starling, the process of looking for the killer Bill seems to be the process of seeking the father in a certain sense. On the other hand, though she first fails in the examination because she desperately works in the daytime and at night, she