| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| 1.1 Flannery O'Connor and Her Short Stories | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第14-18页 |
| 1.3 Research Task and Method | 第18-20页 |
| 2 Anxiety over the Contradiction between the Self and the Body | 第20-29页 |
| 2.1 Anxiety Caused by the Vulnerability of the Female Body | 第20-26页 |
| 2.1.1 Incompleteness of the Female Body and the Foregrounded Animus | 第21-23页 |
| 2.1.2 Trauma of the Female Body and Denial of Anxiety | 第23-25页 |
| 2.1.3 Sexual Anxiety of the Female Body and the Repression | 第25-26页 |
| 2.2. Anxiety Caused by the Lack of Bodily Wholeness | 第26-29页 |
| 2.2.1 Repression and Violence as a Result of Physical Disability | 第26-27页 |
| 2.2.2 Regression as a Result of lethal Disease | 第27-29页 |
| 3 Anxiety over the Contradiction between Individual and the Others | 第29-42页 |
| 3.1 Anxiety Relevant to Family Members | 第29-33页 |
| 3.1.1 Repression Caused by Anxiety over the Lack of Father/Mother | 第29-30页 |
| 3.1.2 Estrangement Caused by Anxiety over Moral Disagreement | 第30-32页 |
| 3.1.3 Hatred and Violence Caused by Anxiety over Property | 第32-33页 |
| 3.2 Anxiety Relevant to Whites of Other Classes | 第33-37页 |
| 3.2.1 The Upper Class's Projection of Anxiety in Association with the Poor Whites | 第34-35页 |
| 3.2.2 The Lower Class's Persona and Projection of Anxiety | 第35-37页 |
| 3.3 Anxiety Relevant to the Black Race | 第37-42页 |
| 3.3.1 The Unconscious Dependence on the Blacks | 第37-39页 |
| 3.3.2 Pain and Hatred Caused by Anxiety over the Rise of the Blacks | 第39-42页 |
| 4 Anxiety over the Contradiction between Individual and History | 第42-51页 |
| 4.1 Anxiety over the Dilemma between the Past and the Present | 第42-45页 |
| 4.1.1 Unconscious Reminiscence of the Past Glory | 第42-44页 |
| 4.1.2 Attachment to the Old South and Denial of the Social Changes | 第44-45页 |
| 4.2 Anxiety in the Mixture of the North and the South | 第45-51页 |
| 4.2.1 Anxiety and Regression under the Pressure of the Old South | 第45-48页 |
| 4.2.2 Anxiety and Impotence under the Pressure of the Intruding North | 第48-51页 |
| 5 Reasons for the Southern Whites' Anxiety | 第51-57页 |
| 5.1 Changes in Southern Class Distinctions and Social Morals | 第51-53页 |
| 5.2 Loss of Faith in the Process of Secularization | 第53-55页 |
| 5.3 The Projection of the Author's Trauma and Unconscious Anxiety | 第55-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-61页 |
