| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| ·Kate Chopin and The Awakening | 第10-11页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Two Lacanian Theory | 第12-17页 |
| ·Lacanian Theory of Subject | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Mirror Stage | 第13页 |
| ·Language and the Divided Self | 第13-17页 |
| ·Language and the Ego | 第14-15页 |
| ·Language and the Alienation of the Subject | 第15-16页 |
| ·Language and the Subject of the Unconscious | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Three Edna’s Psychic Evolution in the Imaginary and the Symbolic | 第17-30页 |
| ·Entrapment in the Imaginary | 第17-21页 |
| ·The Interplay of the Symbolic and the Imaginary | 第21-30页 |
| ·Identification with Imaginary Images | 第23-26页 |
| ·Passive Identification with the Symbolic Order | 第26-30页 |
| Chapter Four Edna’s Resistance against the Symbolic | 第30-48页 |
| ·Gender Theory and Edna’s Rediscovery of Self | 第32-34页 |
| ·The Awakening of the Body and Strength | 第34-38页 |
| ·Resistance against Submissiveness | 第38-43页 |
| ·Resistance against Domesticity | 第43-48页 |
| Chapter Five Edna’s Construction of New Gender Identity and Her Failure | 第48-71页 |
| ·Deprivation of Phallic Power | 第50-61页 |
| ·Subversion of Piety | 第61-68页 |
| ·The Lacanian Subject’s Death—The Failure of Her Reconstruction | 第68-71页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第71-75页 |
| Works Cited | 第75-77页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间取得的研究成果 | 第77-78页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第78页 |
