Young Hannibal’s uncle Robert brings him to postwar France and takes care of him。 Robert is a painter who is married to a Japanese woman named Lady Murasaki。 When Robert dies, Murasaki is left as a widow。 Hannibal becomes an exemplary medical student, noted as an anatomical draftsman。 In the intervening years, he keeps himself busy by tracking down, slaughtering and cannibalizing as many of his sister’s killers as he can find。 One has his head pulled off by a horse; another has the letter “M,” for Mischa, carved into his flesh; another, jostled by preserved cadavers, is drowned in formalin solution。

Arrested by the detective Popil, Lecter is soon freed when popular support for his dispatch of war criminals and lack of hard evidence。 Lecter meets with Murasaki, and they say their goodbyes and part。 Offered a residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, Lecter heads overseas to North America, stopping briefly to visit bar-owner Grentz in Quebec, Canada。 (Harris, 2007)

1。2 Literature Review

Many overseas studies interpret the character Hannibal Lecter in terms of psychoanalysis。 Several researches concentrate on Anthropophagy of Hannibal Lecter。 Some articles analyze Harris’ writing skills such as the use of Gothic genre。 Also, the symbolic meaning in Harris’ novels is discussed。 

In the aspect of psychology, Gregory (2002) thinks that because of childhood trauma involving the killing of his family and the cannibalization of his baby sister, Lecter suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder。 Guttridge (2006) mentions that Hannibal hides his horrible childhood memory in the memory palace he built。 This corresponds to Jung’s concept of inpidual unconsciousness。 Jung (2011) finds that the main content of inpidual unconsciousness is complex, which is a group of emotional concept composed of groups of suppressed bodiless psychology。 Complex decides people’s personality orientation and development motion (Gregory, 2002; Jung, 2011)。

According to Messent (2000), Harris’ Horror/Gothic antecedents are clear in the self-conscious inter-textuality that pervades his novels。

In terms of Anthropophagy study, Ullyatt(2012) finds that that Hannibal Lecter cannibal actions serve to eradicate not only inpiduals whose discourtesy, vulgarity, corruption, and criminality deviate from polite societal norms, but also those inpiduals who, for whatever reasons, become obstacles to Lecter's taste for freedom( Ullyatt, 2012)。

About the symbolic meaning, Gompf (2014) analyzes that the evil part of Hannibal universally exist in all the human beings。 And his miserable childhood experience awakens the existing evil conciousnes (Gompf, 2014)。 Similarly, Simpson（2009）recognizes that the ‘beast’ which Hannibal turns into is a metaphor of human nature。 Like god, human beings have duality, the coexistence of evil and goodness, in their nature (Simpson, 2009)。 文献综述

In China, researches pidedly focus on psychological aspect, characterization, culture and symbol。 Wu and Yang (2014) analyze Hannibal's criminal mind from the perspective of psychological analysis by Freud and childhood trauma consciousness and subconsciousness。 First, they introduce the definition and causes of trauma。 Then they combine the theory with the text and analyze Hannibal’s feeling of love guilty to his sister and his hatred to the soldiers who killed his sister。 The second part is Hannibal’s feelings hidden in his consciousness and subconsciousness。 That is, he kills and eats people to conceal his loneliness and anxiety (Wu & Yang, 2014)。 

Li (2009) uses Freud and Lacan’s’ theory to analyze three characters (Hannibal, Clarice and Buffalo Bill) in The Silence of the Lamb。 He puts the focus on the role of father in a female’s upbringing。 Clarice has Eleketela complex because she lost her father when she was a child。 And Hannibal is actually playing the role of Clarice father psychologically (Li, 2009)。 Under Freud 。Sigmund and Carl Gustav Jung’s psychological discourse, she presents the victim’s deformity after the character goes through traumatic experience in daily life。 Ma (2010) discusses the change of the character Hannibal Lecter in the novel by means of connecting materialism with criminal mind。 The scholar offers a new point of view to comprehend Thomas Harris’ masterpiece。 Chen and Guan (2013) study the relationship between complexes and crime motives。 They analyze several criminal cases with the effect of complex and get a conclusion that it is not single complex but various complexes that jointly cause the crime motive。