Abstract:This paper is a scholarly and soulful inquiry into the iterative relationship between Merle Haggard's struggle to find his way through life and his artistic quest. The paper explores the roots, the meaning, and the working through of personal challenges through Haggard's songwriting and performing, aptly applying psychoanalytic perspectives on development and adaptation to traumatic loss. The analysis follows from biographical and autobiographical accounts of Haggard's life placed in relation to the lyrics of his songs, and explores the reactions of the young Merle to the painful loss of his father and the ambivalent attachment to his mother. Wheeler's approach to the music focuses on the poetry of the lyrics, employing the same kind of scholarly textual analysis that has characterized his considerations of the works of Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, and others.

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一个崩溃的地方：Merle Haggard 的音乐

摘要：这篇论文是对 Merle Haggard 寻找人生道路的努力与他的艺术追求之间的反复关系的学术性和深思熟虑的探究。本文通过 Haggard 的歌曲创作和表演探索了个人挑战的根源、意义和解决方法，并恰当地应用了精神分析观点对创伤性损失的发展和适应。该分析遵循与他的歌曲歌词相关的关于哈格德生平的传记和自传，并探讨了年轻的梅尔对失去父亲的痛苦和对母亲的矛盾依恋的反应。惠勒对音乐的处理侧重于歌词的诗意，