论《可以吃的女人》中的主体异化焦虑

Anxiety over Alienation: A Psychoanalytical Approach to The Edible Woman

自我异化是阿特伍德小说《可以吃的女人》的核心主题。作为精神分析领域的一个概念,自我异化及其所谓"症状"并非主体所面临的灾难,而是主体形成的必要过程。在小说中,阿特伍德用文学的语言和方式解构了主体,指出主体中自我与他者的对立共生,并通过叙事的隐喻呈现一个分裂、异化的主体景象。本文从精神分析的视角入手,分析了小说中精神危机的根源,指出玛丽安的精神危机源自对自我的异化焦虑,体现为她对象征秩序的拒斥以及对完整自我的幻想。通过玛丽安的精神危机,本文旨在揭示作者在小说中对自我本质和后现代主体状况的思索。

Self-alienation is a theme central to Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman.As a keyword in psychoanalytic discourse,alienation is in fact an inherent stage in the inchoative stage of subject formation.Atwood's novel serves as a literary and linguistic deconstruction of the subject in the postmodern context.The novel,through the author's depiction of the heroine's identity crisis and perplexity,can be interpreted as a metaphor that runs parallel to Lacanian model involving the symbolic conflict between self and other in the ego formation of the subject.The heroine's psychic problem stems from her resistance to the Symbolic Order as well as her hallucination of the self as integral and stable.This paper aims to offer a psychoanalytical analysis of the identity crisis in way of illuminating Atwood's notion of the condition of the postmodern subject.