分裂的自我--镜像式解读约翰·契佛笔下艾琳自我建构的破灭

Splitting Oneself:On the Disillusionment of Irene’s Self-Image in John Cheever’s The Enromous Radio from the Perspective of Mirror Theory

从约翰·契佛短篇小说《巨型收音机》入手,解读女主人公艾琳遭遇的自我认知危机。根据拉康的镜像理论,其核心在于主体通过媒介看到客体,并通过客体的反映来认知主体。艾琳的自我认知在收音机媒介作用下发生了扭曲,进而分裂、碎片化,其认知过程由于媒介折射导致误认。超现实的收音机是虚幻的,她的认知基础实则是不稳定且虚幻的。再加上她对自我实际的否认和执着于过分完美的自我建构,最终使得她建构的完美自我破灭,这也展现了机械化加速发展的时代,人们面临着共同的自我认知障碍。

In order to further understanding the difficulties in constructing self identity,the paper in⁃tends to start with John Cheever’s short novel The Enormous Radio,in which the heroine Irene under⁃goes self-recognition crisis.According to Lacan’s mirror theory,the core concept is that the subject sees the object through the mirror medium and he recognizes his self-identity through the reflection of the ob⁃ject.Thus,Irene’s self-perception is distorted,split and fragmented under the influence of the media:ra⁃dio.It can be concluded that the identification process,which is generated by the radio,results in her wrong self-recognition,and Irene’s cognitive foundation is unstable and illusory on the basis of the surre⁃al radio.In addition,her denial of real self and her obsession with perfect self-image eventually lead to the distortion of her self construction,which also shows a common self-cognitive plight faced by people in the age of mechanical development.