Psychoanalysis of popular literature like The Condor Heroes seems a bit funny. But this is the key point: in a post-industrial society or post-modern society dominated by consumer culture, although the so-called boundary between elegant culture and popular culture has disappeared in public opinion, it is still deeply rooted in our discourse practice and in the minds of some people who stick to the traditional thinking of "civilization and barbarism". Although they claim that the post-industrial society has arrived, their actions still prove their deep contempt for the so-called pop culture. In their eyes, Jin Yong's novels, as one of popular cultures, have made great achievements in business, but they still can't enter the palace of elegant literature. Although a few years ago, Professor Wang Yichuan of Beijing Normal University ranked the 20th century writers again, and listed Jin Yong as the fourth master after Lu Xun, Lao She and Shen Congwen. Professor Yan Jiayan, an old professor at Peking University, studies Jin Yong's novels; When Chen Sihe was reading modern and contemporary literary works, he also read some chapters of Jin Yong's novels, but for many academic authorities, Jin Yong's novels are still just fast food literature that makes people laugh. This prejudice still exists because the research of Jin Yong's novel researchers has been in a dilemma.

I mean, if we want to get out of the predicament of Jin Yong's novel research, we must shift our attention from studying their relationship with the times and society. The western "new criticism" theory holds that once a literary text leaves the hands of the author, it becomes a self-sufficient text, regardless of the times. Therefore, this single text can be studied as a closed text. We don't comment on the right or wrong of this theory, but I think this view is a good way to overcorrect the existing research dilemma of Jin Yong's novels and divert attention. I assert that The Condor Heroes is a wonderful psychoanalytic text, which is not only a special case, but also a good proof of this view.

The reason why The Condor Heroes is a wonderful psychoanalytic text comes from an inspiration that I have read the Condor Heroes countless times. It can be said that among many Jin Yong novels, Yang Guo is the one who surprises me the most. The publicity and rebellion of his character, even the extremes of dealing with people, deeply attracted me. Borrowing from China's tradition, he has a Taoist natural and unrestrained and overbearing personality, like running water. Borrowing western languages means that he is an extreme liberal. I admire his individualism most. However, after continuous reading, I sadly found that his growth process was at the expense of gradually losing his liberal style. By the age of 30, continuous cultivation has gradually erased the brand of Taoism, and the factor of freedom no longer exists, returning to the identity of Confucianism as its own responsibility and transitioning to the identity of the world savior. This huge contrast makes me very depressed. The appearance of the great contrast from freedom to redemption attracted me to rediscover the potential significance of this text.

In Freud's psychoanalysis, there is a famous case of "leaving-returning". It is said that one day, Freud watched his grandson playing in the stroller, and he noticed that his grandson let out a cry and left! Then he threw a doll out of the stroller and shouted again! Then I pulled it back with a thread and enjoyed it, as if I had got great satisfaction from this simple game. In his Beyond the Happiness Principle, Freud interpreted this famous game of "leaving and coming back" as the symbolic domination of children over their mothers, and their mothers were not around. However, according to Eagleton, another British cultural critic, this "leave-and-return" mode is a basic narrative way: something is lost and found again. In other words, even very complicated stories can be interpreted as variants of this model. Use a standard narrative language to disrupt the original arrangement and finally answer. Eagleton believes that any story must be missing or disappeared, so that the narrative can be unfolded. If everything is in good condition, there is no story at all. This kind of loss is very painful, but it is also very exciting, because desire itself is inspired by what we can't fully own, which is often one of the reasons why stories can satisfy people.

Compared with the text "The Condor Heroes", what did Yang Guo lose in the process of growing up and what has he been looking for? Perhaps the answer is already expected: he is looking for "father". Father is a word with many meanings in psychoanalysis. It can be a real father. it