“看/被看”主题模式下的自我找寻

很多研究奈保尔的著作指出：奈保尔是一个＂无根＂的边缘人,谱写的是一曲后殖民时期＂无根人＂的哀歌。这已经成为共识。旅行是奈保尔自我找寻过程的体现。自我在＂看/被看＂的旅途中打破一个个的幻象、异化,执着于自我的找寻进而来认同真正的身份。但是奈保尔却＂忽视＂了认同过程中变化的特性,一直寻找而未果。文章以拉康的镜像理论为切入点再解读奈保尔的＂无根性＂,同时揭示人类普遍而真实的生存的状态。

A Search for Self under the Subject Pattern of Looking and Being Looked

Many studies on V. S. Naipaul indicate Naipaul is the marginalized ＂roofless person＂, who composes the dirge of ＂root- less person＂ in the post colonial context. It has been a common view. Travel is the embodiment in which he searches for himself. In the procezs of ＂looking and being looked＂ travel, illusion and alienation are smashed. He insists on a search for self to realize real self - identity. However, Naipaul ＂ignores＂ the changeable characters of self- identity. So the search is endless. This paper interprets Naipaul＇root- lessness from the mirror- phase theory of Jacques Lacan, meanwhile reveals the universal and actual state of human being.