臺灣社會逐漸開放，文學因之解禁，同志議題逐漸受到重視。長期受到父權社會壓抑之下的女性逐漸抬頭，伴隨著女性主義的盛行，女同志文學在此時大放異彩。女同志文學作品中邱妙津占有重要地位，作品之中充分表現女同志愛慾的掙扎。研究邱妙津的作品，可以理解女同志的糾結與恐懼，以此爬梳女同志的自我認同以及創傷敘事的技巧。
研究心理系畢業的邱妙津，以心理學中敘事取向的原理來做為研究方法，主要分成三個部分：
一、自我認同的原理：討論邱妙津自我認同為男性的歷程。
二、應用敘事的方法來發現自我：依照邱妙津日記中的心情轉折來看作品所闡述的內容。
三、應用在研究心靈創傷情況下的自我：在邱妙津性別認同的創傷底下研究之於她的療傷過程與意義。
敘事心理學是找出語言在自我認同的建構之中所扮演的角色，藉由敘事心理學了解自我，人們是不斷地反思內在及外在事物發生的種種，藉由理論瞭解邱妙津在語言、思考當中表現的自我認同。
在法國求學的她，師承愛蓮．西蘇(Hélène Cixous，1937-)學習陰性書寫，藉由創傷敘事寫下自我認同的掙扎與苦痛，依心理學中敘事取向的原理來做研究方法，研究邱妙津小說文本當中的故事以及日記，藉此論述邱妙津在自我認同中的創傷書寫。
The homosexual issue of literature received attention since society is opened gradually in Taiwan. The lesbian literature makes a splash and brilliant as feminism, which has been suppressed under the patriarchy, are rises. The collection of Ciou Miao-Jin held an important portion of lesbian literature, in which the collection revealed the erotic and struggling emotion of lesbian adequately. Appreciate the entanglement and fear of female homosexuality by studying Ciou Miao-Jin’s collection to comb through the self-identity and trauma narrative.
The purpose of the research was to study the principle of psychology’s narrative approaching as researching method and it was divided into 3 parts:
1. The theory of self-identity: Discuss Ciou Miao-Jin’s mental path of self-identification as a male.
2. The method of self-discovering by application narrative: Based on the emotional conversion of Ciou Miao-Jin’s diary to study the content of the collection.
3. The research was applied in self-studying psychic trauma: To study the healing process and meaning under the trauma of Ciou Miao-Jin’s gender identity.
Introducing narrative psychology is to find out the role of language in the construction of self-identity. Through narrative psychology to understand oneself, people are constantly reflecting on the various internal and external things happening, and understanding Ciou Miao-Jin’s language and thinking through theory The self-identity expressed in it.
Ciou Miao-Jin learned Feminine writing under the tutelage of Hélène Cixous (1937- ) in Paris, writing the struggle and pain of self-identity through trauma narrative. Based on the principle of psychology’s narrative approaching to study the trauma narrative of self-identity of the collection of Ciou Miao-Jin.
