英文摘要 |
Inspired by French psychoanalyst Andre Green’s structural concept “the dead mother,” this paper transforms and expands its meaning literally and metaphorically to refer to the physical and psychical dead mother, including the melancholic mother, or any non-normative mothers with bad feelings or negative cultural implications. We analyze the complicated politics of affects in such cultural products as Japanese manga/anime (originated in Japan but widely read and consumed in Taiwan) and Taiwanese novels from the 1950s to the present. We suggest that an attachment to “the dead mother” is a productive dynamic for the various representations of the dead mother and their social, affective implications. In this attachment, the politics of everyday affects goes against the grain of the normative discipline or fantasy of a “good” family. Through the melancholic eyes of “the dead mother,” we can then reread those texts and trace queer feelings internal to the symbolic and explore the melancholic politics of intimacy. |