“自我”与镜像:论《祖先游戏》中文化身份的建构

“Self” and Mirror Image: On the Formation of Cultural Identity in The Ancestor Game

澳大利亚作家艾利克斯·米勒在《祖先游戏》中通过“自我”与镜像的相对关系讨论,界定了移民文化身份的确定方式,并提出身份建构应基于动态的外在社会环境。作品中以多重形式反复出现的镜像既反映了主体身份,也阻碍了主体对“自我”的确立。本文通过拉康的镜像理论观照《祖先游戏》,从“自我”与镜像的对立、“自我”与镜像的和解以及“自我”与“复调”身份3个维度来考察米勒对跨文化经验中个体身份建构的理解。

Australian writer Alex Miller discusses the relative relation between“self”and“other”in order to discover ways to define immigrants’ cultural identity. In so doing,he proposes that the construction of individual identity is supposed to be predicated on the dynamic social conditions. The image of mirror making its various appearances in different forms reflects the identity of subjects and hampers their efforts to establish their “self”. This paper aims to analyze The Ancestor Game from the perspective of Lacan’s Mirror Theory from three aspects,namely,the opposition between“self”and“other”,the reconciliation between“self”and“other”,as well as the“self”and“polyphonic”mirror images to examine Miller’s understanding of individuals’ cross-cultural identity construction.