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口语化文章，不是书面词语，贴一个我儿子一年多前高一的英文习作，请指正
When Looking at Desire Awry
In those modern love novels, movies and TV series, one stereotyped scene often appears: one of the lovers asks the other why he loves her or she loves him —“Which aspect of me make you fall in love?”
In Looking Awry, the book I read last summer break written by a contemporary Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, the author puts forward an imaginary scene to make us understand how to answer the question correctly and dodge clichés: you die someday in the distant future, and your parents, extremely sorrowful, turn to the biologists for help who promise to clone an exactly same “you” with the same eyes, voice, personality and so forth. Then you parents gradually accept this “new” child, loving him/her as loving you. “What do you think of your parents if they really do so? Do you still think that they have really loved you?” Zizek asks then.
The sophisticated future technology would copy every aspect of you with unimaginable precision. However, why don’t the loving parents should not turn to love the cloned kid? Here, we realize that the object of love is not anything that belongs to us. Rather, it is the “unknown X” of the loved, as Zizek points out. So when faced the question aforementioned, one should never answer, “your eyes”, “your voice” or “your personality”, but “the unknown aura around your body” or just keep smiling and silent.
Moreover, the insight not only applies to love (between humans), but to all kinds of desires of human-being. The unknown X is actually an informal reference to small object a in Lacan’s philosophy (theme of the book), defined as the object/cause of desire. We do not desire something for any of its own sake, but we desire because it occupies a special position in the symbolic structure. In this sense, we reach an appalling conclusion that we do not desire our own desire. Our desire, in other word, is not ours, but the big Other’s, which represent the symbolic order, the rituals, systems, ideology, etc. imposed on us everyday.
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2013-09-26 23:45:36
