The Life of The Disgusted Matsuko is a work that shows true humanity and explores the pursuit of human self-identity. Although self-identity research has made great progress in recent decades, the validation of the construct validity of self-identity, its influencing factors, and developmental mechanism and process are still areas for future research. Jacques Lacan's mirror image theory is an important theory in the study of self-identity. Based on Jacques Lacan's mirror-image theory, we explore Matsuko's pursuit of self-identity, find her absence of self-identity, and then we analyze the reasons for the protagonist's loss of self-awareness. One reason is the father’s neglect and mother’s absence. Another reason is the negative effect from the essential others, bad intimate relationships and rarely having friend relationship. Even though her brave pursuit that made her life not only absurd and unsuccessful, she lived a life seriously without giving up hope.
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