旅途中的陌生人: 施蟄存筆下的慾望試煉

This essay analyzes the four short novels concerned with railway journey wrote by Shi Zhecun during the 1930s to discuss the interactions between strange others and modern subject in the trial of desire. visual experience of mobility and time. Previous interpretations intend to apply some given theory to the texts, for instance, the approach of psychoanalysis. In contrast, this essay places the experience of railway journey first and reconstructs the correlation between railway journey and Freudian’s thought of uncanny to make dialogue between the literary experience and theoretical experience through examining Shi Zhecun’s works. I argue that the encounter with strangers in Shi’s writing is essentially a trial for the desire subjects: the modern male tourists failed the test since the gaze of subject resulted in the negation of reality and uncanny; the female tourists rejected the illusions of subject because of the ruined desires and survived through the trial at the price of misrecognized self-reflection.