confessional dilemma

基本解释

Confessional dilemma of a series of characters not only embodies Conrad's meditation on self-constitution, but also reveals his quest for secret truth.
对于这一系列人物“坦白困境”的描写不仅体现出康拉德对自我建构问题的思索，也寄寓着他对“隐秘真理”的追索。
In light of Michel Foucault s theory of "Confessions and Subject", the thesis analyzes this masterpiece with regard to three stages of Jims confessional dilemma in his self-constitution.
本文试图以福柯的“坦白与主体”理论为视角，解读该小说的主人公吉姆在自我建构过程中经历“坦白困境”的三个阶段，并分析导致其“坦白困境”的社会文化成因。

坦白困境
Thus Jim is approaching to confessional dilemma since his birth.
吉姆从一出生,就渐渐地走向"坦白困境"。