本文探討夏綠蒂．勃朗特的自傳式小說《簡愛》中的亂倫型態為其作者潛意識裡對自己父親的依戀與亂倫禁忌之間的掙扎。一開始以討論父女亂倫的背景、誘惑和恐懼為出發點。接著再引入勃朗特的生平事跡，尤其是與其父親和其他父親般人物之間的互動。這些關係如果透過佛洛伊德的戀父情節理論來詮釋，可以解釋勃朗特對其父親的愛慕。但猶如佛氏在《圖騰與禁忌》中提到亂倫禁忌為人類本身最敬畏的恐懼，勃朗特對父親的愛戀也會受到此禁忌的陰影所束縛。再以討論《簡愛》文本中隱藏的亂倫型態與勃朗特生平之間的聯結，以做為小說和作者內心中亂倫期盼與亂倫禁忌之間衝突的依據。最後，以佛洛伊德所主張的作家與其作品之間的關聯，本文推論《簡愛》中的亂倫型態為勃朗特心中對亂倫的期許與恐慌之間的對立。

　　This thesis explores the incest patterns in Charlotte Bronte’s self-revealing narrative of Jane Eyre (1847) as the unconscious manifestation of the novelist’s inner conflict between incest wish and incest taboo. The thesis begins with the discussion about the father-daughter incest－its background, attraction and horrifying effect on human consciousness. The life of Bronte offers us a glimpse of her relationships with her father and the men from the class of “fathers,” which, if viewed from the Freudian theory of Oedipus complex, can explain the motive for her father fixation. But as Freud contends in Totem and Taboo (1913) that incest taboo is our innermost fear, Bronte’s incestuous yearning therefore will always be under the dark shadow cast by this powerful force. The hidden incest themes in Jane Eyre are closely examined along with her own personal experiences to illustrate the struggle between incest wish and fear in both her novel and life. Concluding with the Freudian concept of the connection between the creative writers and their works, this thesis suggests that the incest implications in Jane Eyre are attributed to the clash of incest desire and incest taboo within the psyche of its creator－Charlotte Bronte.

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