T. S. Eliot was born in St Louis Missouri, on 26 September 1888. The Eliots were the aristocrats of the 19th century America. He could spend a happy childhood surrounded by intelligent parents, gentle sisters and a devout nurse. He studied at Harvard and some other universities in Europe. He began to write poems at his very young age, which could gain a good reputation, . Those works suggest his hypersensitivity; in other words, his personal waste land within him. This paper intends to give light to the waste land within him from the psychoanalytical point of view: First, the circumstances in which he was brought up are studiedchiefly on the relationship between Eliot and his mother because the traumatic experience in his childhood is the basic standpoint to know his personal waste land. Second, his too long psychosocial moratorium. This may be the key element to explain his failure to establish a normal ego identity. Lastly, his psychosexual moratorium. This leads him to somewhat homosexual relationship with Jean Verdenal, to hasty marriage to Vivien and to life-long enslavement in the devastation of soul. In order to analyze his own waste land, The Waste Land is chiefly referred to here.
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