“塞壬的故事”:塞壬作为象征的无法清除的残留物(英文)

E.M.Forster’s "The Story of the Siren":The Siren as the Ineliminable Residue in the Symbolic

E·M·福斯特的短篇小说"塞壬的故事"是基于前话语阶段(以海洋作为象征)与话语阶段(以大地作为象征)的复杂交错的关系之上的。这种交错可理解为是一种在可呈现、可理解与不可呈现、不可理解之间的交锋。塞壬作为无定点的缺席,通过从非语言界进入象征界、从被作为他者或现实界的文化所压制的领域进入两兄弟的意识领域而得以呈现。塞壬是现实界转喻性的延伸,故事以虚构的形式重构了通过塞壬进入现实界的人物所处的世界。这篇故事似乎也在探寻人是否能完全地脱离自身的文化机制,从而重获前语言阶段的整体感。本文旨在从拉康关于主体、现实界、象征界形成理论所提供的有力观测点切入,探讨小说中大地与海洋的对抗关系。

E.M.Forster＇s ＂The Story of the Siren＂ is based on the intricate intersection between the pre-discursive （symbolized by the sea） and the discursive elements （symbolized by the earth）.This intersection can be taken as an encounter between the representable,the comprehensible and the unrepresentable,the incomprehensible.The Siren in the story as the non-locus of absence emerges from the realm of the nonverbal into the Symbolic;from the repressed of the culture that is the Other or the Real into consciousness of the two brothers.The Siren acts as a metonymic extension of the Real,and the story fictionalizes a reshaping of the world of these characters who experience an encounter with the Real through the Siren.The story seems to explore whether one can completely disembody one＇s cultural constitution and recapture his/her sense of wholeness experienced in pre-discursive period.This article aims to explore this encounter between the earth and the sea from a Lacanian vantage point against the background of Lacanian ideas on the formation of the subject,the Real and the Symbolic.