Abstract：The Protagonist Tarwater in The Violent Bear It Away refused his destiny to become a prophet and reconverted to Christaninity after experiencing tortuous spiritual and physical violence. Based on Laco' s theories of three orders, Tarwater' s psychological development had three phases:in the imaginary, the subject got a fundamental concept of the ideal prophet like his great uncle, which was destroyed;he came to the symbolic city and was invloved in southern religious culture of the imaginary and the modern world of the symbolic, and became a fragmented subject due to his refusal of father' s law; realizing his desire for Jesus, he got back to the reality finally, finished his own construction and gained religious redemptation with the aid of violence and language loss.

Keyword：Laco' s three orders;the subject;The Violent Bear It Away;