| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-20页 |
| ·Brian Castro and His First Novel Birds of Passage | 第11-13页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第13-17页 |
| ·Significance and Organization of the Thesis | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter Two The Loss of Self | 第20-32页 |
| ·The Intervention of "other" in the Mirror Stage | 第20-23页 |
| ·The Obliteration of Seamus's Real Self with the Influence of the "other" | 第23-26页 |
| ·The Newly-built Imaginary Self through the Identification with the "other" | 第26-32页 |
| Chapter Three The Bewilderment toward the Newly-built self | 第32-44页 |
| ·The Other's Discourse as the Manifestation of the Unconscious | 第32-34页 |
| ·Seamus's Unconscious Reflected by "Food" "Hunger" and "Empty" | 第34-40页 |
| ·The Other's Refusal of Seamus's Unconscious | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Four The Dissimilation of Self | 第44-54页 |
| ·The Other in the Form of the Law-of-the-Father | 第44-46页 |
| ·The Other's Prejudice and Persecution on Seamus | 第46-48页 |
| ·Seamus's Resistance and Refusal of the Other | 第48-54页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Works Cited | 第56-59页 |
| Publications | 第59页 |
