| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| ·An Introduction to Doris Lessing and Her Literary Achievement | 第9-10页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to The Golden Notebook | 第10-12页 |
| ·Literary Review | 第12-14页 |
| ·General Studies | 第12-13页 |
| ·Studies at Home | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Significance of This Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| 2. Causes of Anna’s Mental Crisis in the Chaotic World | 第16-23页 |
| ·Frustration in Literary Creation and Political Activities | 第16-18页 |
| ·Frustration in Sexual Relationship | 第18-19页 |
| ·Frustration in Family Relationship | 第19-20页 |
| ·Sufferings from “the housewife’s disease” | 第20-23页 |
| 3. Madness as a Way to Protect Identity | 第23-37页 |
| ·Laing’s Theory about Ontological Insecurity—Inner Split | 第23-24页 |
| ·The False-Self System—Inner Self and False Self | 第24-25页 |
| ·Specific Expressions of Anna’s Ontological Insecurity and the Ways to Protect Identity | 第25-32页 |
| ·Engulfment—Splitting Selves as a Defense Mechanism | 第25-27页 |
| ·Implosion—Phantasmal World of Writings and Dreams for Anna | 第27-31页 |
| ·Petrification—Anna’s Depersonalization | 第31-32页 |
| ·Suicide as a Defense against the Cruelty of Reality | 第32-37页 |
| ·Laing’s Theory about Schizoid Patient’s Suicide | 第32-33页 |
| ·A Positive Self-defense Mechanism of One’s Identity | 第33-34页 |
| ·Tommy’s Committing Suicide—A Rebirth of Anna’s Inner Self | 第34-37页 |
| ·Janet Projected as Anna’s False Self | 第35页 |
| ·Tommy Projected as Anna’s Inner Self | 第35-36页 |
| ·Tommy’s Rebirth from the Chaos | 第36-37页 |
| 4. Madness—Destructive Power vs. Constructive Power | 第37-40页 |
| ·Taoist Notion of Destruction & Construction | 第37-38页 |
| ·A Motif of Joy-in-Destruction | 第38-40页 |
| 5. Saul as Anna’s Soul Mate in her Emancipation from Madness | 第40-44页 |
| ·Similar Political Experience and Political Ideal | 第40-41页 |
| ·Similar View on the Value of a Writer | 第41页 |
| ·Saul’s Understanding of Anna as a Woman | 第41-42页 |
| ·Mutual Support of Anna and Saul to Break through Divided Selves | 第42-44页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第44-46页 |
| References | 第46-49页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第49页 |
