酷刑的仪式性和民间革命心理——《檀香刑》的精神解析

The Ritual of Cruel Torture and Civil Revolutionary Psychology——The Psychological Analysis to Sandalwood Death

莫言的《檀香刑》,为我们展示了一个人的肉体在接受法律判决时,演化为最极端的刑罚场景。它真实地再现了人类命运中某种内在的悲剧,通过描绘、安排场景和对话,让我们这些观众(或听众)体验到最大的恐惧。对酷刑的反省,是这样一种可能的模拟试验,它的目的,是检查蕴含在旧制度文化中的残酷性,也检省一种面向个体的制度暴力,以及一个社会个体的肉体生命和司法制度的关系,唤起民间革命心理的集体回忆。本文尝试从这样的制度与暴力的阴暗特性中,找到对已经发生之事的反思性分析和批判维度。

Sandalwood Death,written by Mo Yan,describes an occasion of extremely cruel torture to one' s body under the social law ' s adjudication.The description of the penalty scenes and dialogues could arouse great fear of the readers.Through these vivid descriptions,it reflects the inevitable tragedy of the human beings' fate in some respects.As a trial imitation,the introspection of the cruel torture aims at inspecting the cruelty embodied in the old social system and culture.Whilst,it inspects the systematic violence to the individuals,and the relations between the individual life and the judicial system.Thus it recalls some groups of the memories of civil revolution.This paper tries to make reflective analysis and criticism to the past story from the viewpoint of the tenebrific features of the old system and violence.