| 英文摘要 |
This article focuses on the novel Sincerely Yours Shurik (Искренне ваш Шурик) by the contemporary Russian female writer Ulitskaya (Людмила Улицкая). The novel is known for its descriptions of a man’s romance with many women and its bold revelation of women’s sexual desire. However, under this surface of multiple sexual liaisons lies a most intimate male-female relationship—that between the protagonist Shurik and his mother Vera. While Shurik and Vera continue their relationship as lovers, their intimacy falls short of incestuous sex and is thus paled by other more explicitly sexual relationships in the novel. Consequently, not much scholarship has been done in this regard. Russian Jewish writer Ulitskaya describes this mother-son relationship with much precaution to avoid overt incest, but meanwhile she from time to time banteringly draws attention to these ambiguous feelings between Shurik and his mother. This paper attempts to explore this complex emotions between mother and son, and the contributing factors of the Jewish Family Tradition, Platonic Love, the Oedipus Complex, and Jocasta Complex. |