Sadomasochistic Subject (Ivat) ion in D. H. Lawrence's "the Prussian Officer"

勞倫斯〈普魯士軍官〉中的主（體）從屬性

10.29737/SJFLL.200809.0001

傅友祥(Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu)

勞倫斯 ； 普魯士軍官 ； 從屬論述 ； 主體化 ； 主體交替 ； 施虐受虐 ； D. H. Lawrence ； The Prussian Officer ； subjection ； subjectivation ； intersubjectivity ； sadomasochism

東吳外語學報

27期（2008 / 09 / 01）

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英文

本論文從複雜的性心理機制切入，探析勞倫斯一九一四年的短篇小說〈普魯士的軍官〉如何呈現權力分配與建構之失調。本文先以黑格爾的主奴關係類比小說中的軍官、僕從在心理肉體的關係，進而檢視權力機制在心理層面中的失衡。再者，本文將以巴特勒已深入分析的從屬論述為起點，剖析從屬關係中既對立又矛盾的牽引力，進而將從屬論述及交替主體之理論脈絡化，解讀故事中主體性的萌生、分裂，以及性慾肉體的施虐、受虐如何彼此交融、分離，而造成主體性在重新組構過程的窒礙。文末將試圖揭示勞倫斯作品裡，主體交替崩解後，受現代性衝擊時的心理夢靨。

This paper analyzes D.H. Lawrence's short story ”The Prussian Officer” (1914) by drawing on the problematic distribution and formation of power, operated intrinsically in complex psycho-sexual matrices. The essay first traces the physic and physical apparatuses in the officer-orderly relationship, based on the Hegelian master-slave narrative, and it argues for the failure of equilibrating the power dynamics within the psychic horizon. Furthermore, probing the tension of oppositions and paradoxes of subjection, a theory already elaborated by Judith Butler, the essay contextualizes two theoretical discourses, subjection and intersubjectivity, to examine Lawrence's story where the formation of subjectivity (subjectivation) emerges and splits and where sexual/physical sadism and masochism (sadomasochism) both merge with and diverge from each other, thereby enacting a problematic re-constitutive dynamics of modern subjectivity. The paper attempts to provide a view in which Lawrence presents a product of intersubjective collapse into the terrifying modern psychic life.

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