流变的身份:德勒兹精神分裂分析视域下的《中性》

The ever changing identity: An interpretation of Middlesex from the perspective of Deleuze’s schizoanalysis

杰弗里·尤金尼德斯的小说《中性》由两性人卡尔·卡利俄珀以自传性的视角、史诗性的口吻叙述了一家三代的移民史和成长道路。其中主人公的移民背景和性别错置经历使其身份议题成为学界热议的重点。本文以流变思维为特征的德勒兹哲学学说为理论指导,探讨尤金尼德斯如何生成他者、颂扬欲望,在国家、宗教及文化层面不断解辖域的游牧行为,逃离确定的身份限制,打破沉闷闭锁的过去与现实,消解非此即彼的二元对立观,始终居于“之间”,通过逃逸的方式返回生命本身。

Jeffery Eugenides’ Middlesex features a hermaphrodite protagonist who narrates the immigration history of three generations of his family and his own upbringing. The protagonist’s immigrant background and experience of gender dislocation have made the topic of identity the focus of research. Using Deleuze’s philosophical doctrine as a theoretical guide, this paper explores Eugenides’ nomadic behavior of becoming the other, celebrating desire, and constantly deconstructing domains at the national, religious, and cultural levels, escaping the limits of a defined identity, breaking the dull and closed past and reality, dissolving the dichotomy, and always residing in the “middle”. The “middle” is a way to return to life itself by escape.