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- Title
Chasing After Nothingness—Reading Zhang Ailing Through Žižek’s Interpretation of Lacan.
- Authors
Wei-Hsin Lin
- Abstract
This article provides a Lacanian reading of one of the short stories of Zhang Ailing, a Chinese writer. It is intended to explore the possibility of employing Lacan’s theory of the symbolic order to the interpretation of a Chinese text, as well as to broaden our understanding of Zhang’s work and to unlock the potential of the applicability of Lacan’s ideas. The final part of the article will draw on Žižek’s interpretation of Lacan to illustrate how Zhang, unlike most of her contemporaries, is exempted from the obsession with China and how this obsession can lead us to the conclusion that whatever we chase obsessively in life is nothing but nothingness.
- Subjects
NOTHING (Philosophy); ZHANG, Ailing, 1920-1995; OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder
- Publication
Janus Head, 2017, Vol 16, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1524-2269
- Publication type
Article