本論文旨在探討說故事和自我認知兩者之間的關係。在譚恩美的《喜福會》和克莉絲蒂娜賈西亞的《古巴夢》二書中，眾多女性家族成員敘說他們的過去經驗、當下生活與未來期待，分別架構一部關於女性創傷與成長的家族敘述。論文主要分三部分，第一部分探討說故事與自我建構的因果關係。文本中的母親藉由講述不同的生命故事，試圖傳達他們所認定的自我形象，反之故事也幫助他們建構出理想中的自我。母親透過故事塑造堅強和聰明的正面形象，然而現實中卻不斷表現精神耗弱的一面，這些矛盾來自於母親刻意掩蓋過去創傷經驗，避而不談的結果是透過身體重演和記憶侵擾來見證隱瞞的事實。母親對於過去的恐怖事件保持沉默，半是因為精神崩潰無法言語，半是試圖以沉默來否認暴行和不公。論文第二部分回推主角過去的創傷經驗，分析他們的情緒問題，了解他們如何選擇特定形象扮演。由於長期暴露在創傷經驗引起的負面情緒，母親發展出某些不良的情緒基模，這些情緒基模持續影響他們往後人際關係和自我認同，甚至在家庭中隔代遺傳。女兒透過和母親的互動，學習如何偏差地看待他人，發展出不恰當的行為反應和價值判斷。因為父母和子女都是透過心智的有色眼鏡來了解現實和他人，他們不斷扭曲自我認知，造成親子感情與人際關係的失調。第三部分探討主角們如何將生命的危機轉變成契機，以求解決個人情緒問題和處理緊繃的親子關係。文中親友的逝世或母女的衝突成為他們生命的轉捩點，促使他們發覺自身的情緒問題。母親們採用寬容開放的態度來面對過往不愉快的回憶，檢視早先的創傷經驗，企圖了解過去的苦難如何造成當下的煩惱。他們重新透過說故事的方式，建構一個健全的自我，並且幫助女兒釐清他們的生命方向。透過故事與母親進行溝通對話，女兒們跳脫過往負面情緒基模的自我侷限，採用不同觀點來看待母親和自己，解決生活上的困境，也達到心靈上的成長。

Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban propose the matrilineal narrative of woman suffering and spiritual growth. Multiple narrators tell personal stories about the past events to cope with their current concerns and coming difficulties. Their storytelling functions as a way of making sense of experiences and fashioning identity. The first chapter explores how the narrative activity enables the del Pino and Joy Luck women to construct a preferred version of personal experiences. They not only tell stories to create idealized self-images but also live their lives to justify the images. Though they portray themselves as capable women in personal stories, they often appear vulnerable and mentally unstable in reality. Such contradiction results from the traumatic events the women leave untold, and they resist telling partly because of their madness and partly because of their repudiation of the events. The second chapter will examine their traumatic experiences to understand how their emotional problems determine the representation of their personal narratives. Due to the early traumatic experiences, the women develop maladaptive schemas to cope with their negative emotions. The schemas, however, undermine their interpersonal relationships and prevent them from fulfilling the basic needs. While wrestling with their emotional problems, they unwittingly transplant schemas into the next generation. The third chapter examines how certain crucial moments in their lives enlighten the women to have awareness of their schemas at the core of their suffering. The death of the family members and serious mother-daughter disagreements provide the opportunity for the women to move beyond the limited way they used to perceive themselves and others. With an open and positive attitude, they relate the traumatic experiences to understand how their early suffering contributes to their present difficulties and outgrow what has troubled them before.

Introduction
Chapter One：Narrating the Self
Chapter Two：Emotional Schema
Chapter Three：Emotional Alchemy
Conclusion
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