Abstract: The Awakening，the masterpiece of Kate Chopin, tells the story of Edna, the heroine of the novel who is unwilling to become the slave of her family and walks out to pursue love and career．From the perspective of Mirror Theory advocated by Lacan, the French structural psychoanalyst，we are able to analyze the difficult life of Edna who constructs her“self”in the patriarchal society: her identification with the“Mirror”of the patriarchal society leads to the alienation of her“self”，and not being able to find the right way out in the lives of the“Others”，she has to discard her female self-awareness and live like a man. As she is trapped by the distorted“Mirror”, Edna fails to construct a true“self”.

Keywords: The Awakening; Mirror theory; construction of self

摘要： 凯特·肖班的代表作《觉醒》讲述了主人公艾琳娜不愿做家庭的奴隶，勇敢地走出家庭，追求爱情和事业的故事。法国结构主义精神分析学家拉康的镜像理论解析了艾琳娜在男权社会中建构“自我”的艰辛历程：她对男权社会“镜像”的认同导致了其“自我”的异化，而在“他者”的生活中也无法寻求到正确的出路，最终只得抛弃女性主体意识，以男性的姿态去生活。她陷入了“镜像”的误区，无法建构真正的“自我”。

关键词: 《觉醒》, 镜像理论, 自我建构