《红字》中珠儿心理的后结构主义精神分析解读

Psychoanalysis of Pearl: A Lacanian View of Post-structuralism Psychoanalysis

珠儿是美国作家霍桑小说《红字》中的主要人物之一。她的心理发展过程印证了拉康的后结构主义精神分析理论中著名的“镜像阶段”(themirrorstage)说。她经历了对自身形象的认同———对自己的菲勒斯缺失的认同———接受符号的阉割,最终认同了父亲的权威和大的他者(Other)的权威,完成了镜像阶段的整个过程。这一过程在人物的社会心理上是从儿童到成人的经历,珠儿开始的无知和狂妄最终被对法权的承认所取代。

Pearl is one of the chief characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s well-known novel The Scarlet Letter. The process of her psychological development proves one of Lacanian famous view of post-structuralism—the mirror stage. She is shown in the early chapters going through the first step of the mirror stage, where she finds images of identification and antagonism. In the last chapters, her climactic step takes her through recognition of the loss of the phallic symbol and acceptance of symbolic castration, to final submission to the identification and authority of the father. Her development towards psychological maturity is a paradigm case of the passage from infancy through the steps of the mirror stage to gain the capability of mature womanhood as defined within her culture. Pearl’s ignorance and arrogance in the beginning has been replaced by submission to the law.