英文摘要 |
his study aims to contrast two conceptions and phenomena of "repetition" which lead the post-trauma mind into the imprisonment of the eternal return, i.e., "blocked repetition," of the painful past or, alternatively, into the double blessing of freedom and renewal of life. Via revisiting the contra-therapeutic phenomenon of repetition represented in Duras's film-text, Hiroshima Mon Amour, the first target of investigation is set on the despairing type of repetition embodied in the heroine's love life, namely, her "personal Hiroshima." From this perspective, "Hiroshima" is deliberated as not only the emblem of traumatic memory but also a metaphor of victimhood of impossible forgetting/memory and the incurable repetition of historical pain. Against this problematic kind of repetition, for which either the psychoanalytic approach or the Hiroshima writer, Duras, has no promise of cure, the second part of investigation means to scrutinize a different conception of "repetition" in Kierkegaard's religious philosophy, with the special attention paid to his treatment of the afflicted but pious Job of the Old Testament as its "living" model. To Kierkegaard, Job represents the prototype of a trauma-devastated sufferer but chooses "repetition" as his way of living and becomes a healed, double-blessed, and liberated man of God, which is treated by Kierkegaard as "a principle of guidance to every man." This understanding of Job is based on Kierkegaard's modern, psychological, and profoundly religious and philosophical understanding of what "repetition" means to human existence. At the core of the Kierkegaardian repetition as exemplified by Job, the biblical man of religious piety, is the idea of passion for freedom, possibility, and life. Via examining the phenomenon and concept of repetition in terms of two different lived situations demonstrated respectively in the Hiroshima film and in Kierkegaard's interpretation of Job, the whole study looks to reflect on the existential possibilities when "repetition" is unavoidable yet may not be hopelessly pathetic even for a death-preoccupied heart of pain. Ultimately, the study observes that contrary to "Hiroshima," i.e., the "blocked repetition" of the horror of memory, Kierkegaard's Job embodies the religious repetition that promises hope, as Job, out of religious piety, chooses to re-live not the past but "the event of the instant" that creates the present and the future as well as a life of freedom and possibility. |