重讀《金鎖記》：鐵閨閣與雙重人格的儒家瘋女

Reread “The Golden Cangue”：Iron Boudoirs and Schizoid Personality of Confucian Madwomen

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

本文試圖在中國傳統性別秩序的基礎上重讀張愛玲的〈金鎖記〉，並試圖借助西方女性主義理論去解構文本。這裏提出「鐵閨閣」的概念，藉此挖掘〈金鎖記〉中有關女性人物的壓抑符碼。在匮乏、焦慮和壓抑的主題下，作者把曹七巧推向歇斯底里的邊緣，並在性别文化的定位中把她推向瘋狂。此瘋女形象在中國現代文學史中具有獨特的意義。自傅雷〈論張愛玲的小説〉以來，評論者一向從慾望、壓抑與經濟的角度理解曹七巧的瘋狂現象。本文則進一步提出雙重人格的觀點，從人格分裂視角去理解曹七巧的瘋狂現象，及其深層的內在心理與文化層次的問題。

This article attemtps to reread “The Golden Cangue” on the basis of the Chinese traditional gender order, also it attempts to deconstruct the text by means of the Western feminism theory. Hereby the article brings up the concept of “Iron Boudoirs” and by this, to dig out the oppression symbol regarding the female figures in this article. Under the premise of lack, anxiety and oppression, the author pushed Cao Qiqiao to the edge of hysteric and toward madness on the positioning of the gender culture. Moreover, Eileen Chang formed an unique mad woman image in the Chinese modern literature history. Ever since Fu Lei’s “The critique of Eillen Chang’s novel”, the commentators have always tried to understand the madness state of Cao Qiqiao from the viewpoint of desire, oppression, and economic. This article further brought up the viewpoint of split personality, to understand the madness state of Cao Qiqiao from the viewpoint of schizophrenia, as well as her psychical and the cultural aspect problems.