| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Contents | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-27页 |
| ·An Introduction to Doris Lessing's Life | 第13-15页 |
| ·An Introduction to Doris Lessing's Works | 第15-18页 |
| ·An Introduction to The Grass Is Singing | 第18-19页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第19-25页 |
| ·Literature Review on Doris Lessing's Writings | 第19-22页 |
| ·Literature Review Abroad | 第19-20页 |
| ·Literature Review at Home | 第20-22页 |
| ·Literature Review on The Grass Is Singing | 第22-25页 |
| ·Literature Review on The Grass Is Singing Abroad | 第22-24页 |
| ·Literature Review on The Grass Is Singing at Home | 第24-25页 |
| ·Main Argument of This Thesis | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Basis | 第27-36页 |
| ·An Introduction to R. D. Laing | 第27-28页 |
| ·Origins of R. D. Laing's Theory | 第28-31页 |
| ·Sigmund Freud | 第29页 |
| ·Existentialism | 第29-31页 |
| ·Existentialists' Concept of "Being" | 第30-31页 |
| ·Existentialists' Concept of "Self" | 第31页 |
| ·R. D. Laing's Theory of Schizophrenia | 第31-36页 |
| ·Ontological Insecurity | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Anxiety of Engulfment | 第33页 |
| ·The Anxiety of Petrification and Depersonalization | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Anxiety of Implosion | 第34页 |
| ·The Split Self | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter 3 Theory of Schizophrenia Embodied in Mary Turner's Process of Mental Breakdown | 第36-48页 |
| ·Mary's Existential Status of "Being-in-the-World" | 第36-37页 |
| ·Mary's Identity Crisis—"Ontological Insecurity" | 第37-48页 |
| ·Mary's Experience of Three Forms of Anxieties | 第39-45页 |
| ·Mary's Experience of the Anxiety of Engulfment in Her Unhappy Childhood | 第39-40页 |
| ·Mary's Experience of the Anxiety of Petrifi cation and Depersonalization in Her Impersonal Adulthood | 第40-42页 |
| ·Mary's Experience of the Anxiety of Implosion before and during Her Disastrous Marriage | 第42-45页 |
| ·Mary's Split Self and Ultimate Mental Breakdown | 第45-48页 |
| Chapter 4 Theory of Schizophrenia Embodied in the Causes of Mary's Mental Breakdown | 第48-57页 |
| ·The Internal Cause of Mary's Tragedy—Split between Phantasies and Reality | 第48-50页 |
| ·Split between Phantasies and Reality in Mary's Childhood | 第48-49页 |
| ·Split between Phantasies and Reality in Mary's Adulthood | 第49页 |
| ·Split between Phantasies and Reality after Mary's Marriage | 第49-50页 |
| ·The External Causes of Mary's Tragedy | 第50-57页 |
| ·Unhappy Family Environment | 第50-53页 |
| ·Mary's Attitude towards Her Mother | 第51-52页 |
| ·Mary's Attitude towards Her Father | 第52-53页 |
| ·The Restrictive Collective Code | 第53-57页 |
| ·Victim of the Collective Code | 第53-54页 |
| ·Victim of the Self-centered Community | 第54-57页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第57-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-63页 |
| 附录 | 第63页 |
