本文论述了新时期乡土小说创作中作家精神意象的更迭 ,由此前的漂泊—回归而转向摆脱与纠缠。作家的精神意象并不仅仅来自于作家主体本身 ,而是更深地根植于知识者与乡土社会的关系的变迁中。回归—漂泊的精神意象中主要表现为创作主体与表现对象的乡土社会之间的差异性 ;摆脱与纠缠这种精神意象中 ,主体的个体意识并未完全确立 ,或者说这种主体的个体意识正在努力的确立的过程中 ,回归—漂泊多少是因为回归者与乡土世界的隔阂造成的 ,摆脱—纠缠这种精神意象中它首先表现为人物内在的精神冲突 ,集中说来就是主体的个体意识生成的意欲和这种努力受到障碍的矛盾所造成的痛苦。这种矛盾体现在创作中的感觉方式到人物塑造到叙述方式等一系列的艺术过程 ,甚至可以说它不但体现在这些艺术过程中 ,它还推动着这些艺术方式的产生与选择 This paper discusses the change of writers’ spiritual images in the creation of local novels in the new period. It shifts from excursion to ridding and entanglement. The spiritual image of the writer does not come merely from the writer’s subject itself, but from the changes of the relationship between the knowledgeer and the native society. Regression - the spiritual image of wandering mainly manifests itself as the difference between the creative subject and the native society that expresses the object. In the mental image of getting rid of and entanglement, the individual consciousness of the subject is not completely established or the individual consciousness of the subject In the process of being hard at work, the return - the number of wandering is caused by the estrangement between the returnees and the local world, and the spirit image of the entanglement is firstly manifested as the inner mental conflict of the characters, which is the individual consciousness of the main body The pain caused by the contradiction between the intention to generate and the obstacle to such effort. This contradiction manifests itself in a series of artistic processes, from the way of feeling in creation to the way of characterization to narration. It can even be said that it not only manifests itself in these artistic processes, but also promotes the creation and choice of these artistic ways