“我说,故我不在”:哈罗德·品特《生日晚会》之语言维度

“I Speak,Therefore I Am Not”:Linguistic Perspective of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party

从拉康"三域"理论视角看,品特的《生日晚会》可谓典型的"语言剧"。该剧从语言的维度展示了人之自我建构与自我异化之间存在的悖谬:在想象域,自我的生成源于对镜像自我的误认,斯坦利通过充满不确定性的言说瓦解了对镜像自我的想象性认同。在象征域,人在语言的询唤中陷入能指网络,失去自己本真的存在。为规避异化的宿命,斯坦利以无意义的声音和绝对意义上的沉默对抗作为大他者的语言,将自己放逐到象征域之外,从而进入"不可能的"真实域。

Based on Lacanian“Three Registers”,Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party can be reinterpreted as a typical“language play”.The Birthday Party exhibits the paradoxes between self-construction and self-alienation from the linguistic perspective.In the Imaginary,human beings mistakenly identify themselves with the mirror selves.However,Stanley undermines the imaginary identification by his narration full of uncertainties.In the Symbolic,when interpellated by language,human beings lose their true existence in the net of the signifiers.To escape the fateful alienation,Stanley goes beyond the realm of the Symbolic and enters the impossible Real by making meaningless sounds or keeping absolute silence to fight against the Other language.