英文摘要 |
Alice Munro’s “long” short story “Runaway” and Lacan’s Seminar XX(and Television) both delve into the two great liberation movements thatbegan in the latter half of the last century and are now still underway—theyouth movement and the feminist movement—as well as the discourses onknowledge and human relations these movements give rise to. These textsgive expression to these authors’ observations and responses in the form ofwhat Lacan calls “lalangue,” a mixture of language and affect, which relates tofeminine jouissance and which thus poses a radical challenge to language andlogocentrism. In addition, the reader’s own predicament consequent upon thetwo liberation movements adds to the difficulty.The predicament is a twofold one. On the one hand, there is the dauntingchallenge to separation and the formation of subjectivity subsequent to theanti-repressive idealism and the weakening of authority brought about by thetwo movements, plus consumer capitalism. On the other, (phallic) subjectivity,along with its narcissistic love, is becoming invalid.By resorting to a two-way reading/analysis of Munro’s “Runaway” andLacan’s Seminar XX, the present article attempts to tackle the compulsivelyrepetitive reading entailed by these two difficult texts. This attempt leads tolalangue’s enigmatic vision: it is only by toning down the dominant discourseprescribing the ego’s domination over the unconscious and the object, viathe encounter between subjects with their respective enigmatic unconscious |