吴承恩

吴承恩 is the conventional author attribution for 《西游记》 in 43.西游记：咄！你是什么妖精！. The episode notes that this attribution is the answer many people learn in school, and connects its authority to later local-record and modern-scholarship acceptance rather than treating it as a simple fact that ends the question.

In the source, 吴承恩 matters less as a biography than as one pole in an authorship problem. 丘处机 and 杨慎 show how other attribution traditions can redirect the novel toward Daoist history or Ming political allegory. That makes 吴承恩 part of Accretive Text Formation and Classic Reading Complexity: a classic may be canonical while still carrying uncertain authorship, earlier source layers, and later scholarly stabilization.

Connections

• 《西游记》 - work conventionally attributed to him.
• 丘处机 and 杨慎 - alternative attribution figures discussed by the episode.
• Accretive Text Formation - textual-history concept that keeps authorship from being treated as a single closed answer.
• 索隐式阅读 / Suo Yin Reading - interpretive mode that becomes stronger when readers suspect hidden political authorship.