Ouyang Xiu's Literary Writing and Self-Reinvention in the Perspective of the Disease of Secret Worry

Abstract

The disease of secret sorrow is similar to modern depression, which is a kind of psychological disease caused by excessive worry and sadness. Under the perspective of the disease of melancholy, we analyze Ouyang Xiu's psychological journey from three perspectives: cause and origin, sickness and healing, and self-transcendence; Ouyang Xiu at different times mainly used the three ways of borrowing objects to express his feelings, sending his love to landscapes and constructing a fairyland to ease his psychology. In the process of self-analysis, Ouyang Xiu is constantly revising his self-orientation, transforming from idealization to reality, and ultimately completing the spiritual transformation of the "Sixth Householder".