HAUNTING IN AN AGE OF INDIVIDUALIZATION

HAUNTING IN AN AGE OF INDIVIDUALIZATION
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个性化时代的困扰

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2009
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Sasha Roseneil
Sasha Roseneil
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摘要本文运用“萦绕”的概念来探讨即使是那些被认为是特别个性化的人,是如何被他人的生活痕迹所占据的。本文采用了一个详细的案例研究,该案例研究来自英国对生活在传统同居夫妇之外的人的个人生活和价值观的研究。本是一位50多岁的英国黑人,他是个人生活个性化的一个“强有力”的案例。本代表自己高度自力更生和自给自足,但他的叙述反复回到他去世已久的父亲的核心重要性;该文件表明,他的采访,和他的主观性,是“困扰”他父亲的鬼魂。它探讨了如何解决性别和种族归属和身份认同的冲突问题,以及道德主体性问题,并与他死去的父亲有关。本文借鉴了有关闹鬼的心理和社会文化过程的精神分析和社会学著作,特别是克里斯托弗·博拉斯和艾弗里·戈登的作品。它有助于重新思考社会学的个性化理论,挑战社会学认真对待精神分析启发的关系本体论,以及过去的关系对主体性的影响。
ABSTRACT This paper uses the notion of ‘haunting’ to explore how even those who might be considered to be particularly individualized are inhabited by the traces of the lives of others. The paper works with a single detailed case study taken from UK based research on the personal lives and values of people living outside the conventional cohabiting couple. It develops a psycho-social-analysis of interviews with Ben, a black English man in his 50s who is a ‘strong’ case of the individualization of personal life. Ben represents himself as highly self-reliant and self-sufficient, yet his narratives repeatedly return to the central importance of his long dead father; the paper suggests that his interviews, and his subjectivity, are ‘haunted’ by the ghost of his father. It explores the ways in which conflicted issues of gendered and racialized belonging and identification, and questions of ethical subjectivity, are worked out in relation to his dead father. The paper is informed by psychoanalytic and sociological writing on psychic and socio-cultural processes of haunting, particularly the work of Christopher Bollas and Avery Gordon. It contributes to the re-thinking of sociological theories of individualization, challenging sociology to take seriously a psychoanalytically inspired ontology of relationality, and the impacts of past relationships on subjectivity.