Research on Theoretical and Representative Reconstruction of Intimate/Public Spheres

本研究借由重新阅读佛洛伊德与拉康的精神分析，并重新检视“主体”与“能动性”的概念，发展女性主义对父权社会的批判，试图探讨一种新的自我形成。“根据最近的性别/性研究结果，强调的是“暴力”在“公共”（公共领域）和“私人”（亲密领域）之间的接合和缝合的情况下实施，自我本身在社会中建立。在理论上，本研究透过贝尔萨尼的讨论，重新思考佛洛伊德的“受虐狂”概念，以及阿甘本的“生物政治”，包括“自杀性爆炸”、“虐待”、“辅导”、“变性”等。此外，本研究也重新思考女性特质，它被认为是位于公共领域与私密领域的交界处，在本质主义和建构主义的非两极化框架下，本研究还试图分析文化表征作为自我形成的意识形态装置，处理恐怖主义小说，如亨利詹姆斯的第一部美国恐怖主义小说和迈克尔坎宁安新近出版的一部，在那里描述的“同性社会”和“大家庭”，指的是德里达的概念，“好客。此外，还从“纯爱”意识形态的角度对好莱坞电影和日本近代电影进行了研究，研究成果发表在学术期刊和书籍上，并在各种学术会议和讲座上发表。在我目前的研究中，它们得到了深入的发展，突出了“暴力”本身。

Developing past feminist criticism of patriarchal society, this research tried to investigate a new sort of self-formation, rereading Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and reexamining the concepts of "subject" and "agency." What is emphasized---based upon the results of recent gender/sexuality studies---is "violence" exercised in the instances of articulation and suture between "the public" (the public sphere) and "the private" (the intimate sphere), where self itself is built in society. Theoretically, this research reconsidered both Freud's concept of "masochism" through Leo Bersani's discussion and Foucalt's "bio-politics" though Giorgio Agamben in terms of "suicide bombing," "abuse," "counseling," "sex changes," etc. Furthermore, "femininity," which is considered to be located in the interface between the public and intimate spheres, was examined in a non-polarized framework between essentialism and constructionism.This research also attempted analyses of cultural representations as ideological apparatuses of self formation, dealing with terrorist novels such as the first American terrorist novel by Henry James and the newly-published one by Michael Cunningham, in terms of "homosociality" and "extended family" described there, referring to Derrida's concept, "hospitality." Hollywood films and recent Japanese movies were also treated from the perspective of "pure love" ideology.The achievements of this research were published in academic journals and books as well as presented at various academic meetings and lectures. They are now developed deeply in my own present research highlighting "violence" itself.