「加速」作為新興施虐爽欲的媒介：論維希留的加速理論

“Acceleration” as a Media of Emergent Sadist Jouissance: On Virilio’s Theory of Acceleration

從精神分析理論的角度來看，維希留的理論最具啟發性之處，在於他描繪出「加速」如何媒介性地建構出了「施虐爽欲」的「新興品種」。不同於傳統精神分析理論中的施虐爽欲，總是以「他者」為施虐對象，這種由「加速」所中介建構出來的新興施虐爽欲，卻是將「整個世界」置於施虐對象的位置上。對過往的精神分析理論來說，這是一種只能停留在純粹理念層次的施虐爽欲類型。而維希留對「加速」的描繪與分析則說明了，這種原本只能停留在純粹理念層次的施虐爽欲如何被當代的加速機器轉化為感知性的現實。

From the viewpoint of psychoanalytical theories, the most illuminating aspect of Paul Virilio’s theory is the aspect that analytically describes the ways within which “acceleration” mediates and constructs a newly emerging kind of “sadist jouissance” in contemporary society. Different from the sadist jouissance discussed in traditional psychoanalysis that always takes “the other” as its victim, this emergent sadist jouissance constituted and driven by “acceleration” attempts to take “the field of the world as a whole” as its victim-object. This is a kind of sadist jouissance never really encountered by tradition psychoanalytical theories and their clinical practices. As a result, originally, this kind of sadist jouissance can only stay on the level of pure idea in traditional psychoanalysis. However, Virilio’s theorization on “acceleration” and acceleration machines had explained to us the ways within which this purely ideal sadist jouissance is realized in and become a part of contemporary perceptual reality.