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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to explore the different levels of masochism, especially the symptomatic fantasy of the masochistic subject in the novel, The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek. Erika Kohut, whose symbiotic relationship with the authoritarian mother is rather sadomasochistic, is oriented toward pleasure-seeking violence in sexual masochism. Thus, the ideal romance with her male student, Walter Klemmer, deteriorates into a harsh disillusionment of perverse humiliation. To analyze masochism, I will compare Freudian interpretation to Deleuzian understanding and discuss their difference, together with the Žižekian theory that would postulate that this masochistic enjoyment is the subject’s passion for the Real to avoid a psychotic break down in the symbolic order.

KEY WORDS: fantasy, masochism, the real, jouissance, affect, narcissism

摘 要

本論文試圖探究受虐狂差異的另類情感，比較精神分析與德勒茲理論對受虐狂的不同認知，來思考葉琳內克小說《鋼琴教師》主體享樂的受虐絕爽的巔峰經驗。小說敘述一位才華洋溢、獨身的女鋼琴教師，生長在單親家庭，長期受制於嚴苛、獨裁母親的管教，這種共生的自戀關係，卻發展出孤傲、冷酷情感。這位女鋼琴師與學生克萊蒙的糾葛戀情揭露出她特殊的情慾癖好：受虐狂。這使得一樁美感戀情急速轉變成粗暴、羞辱的惡戀。本論文較著重在解說特殊女性主體選擇受虐巔峰情感背後隱藏的慾望，卻是主體對真實層的熱愛及免於精神崩潰的生存方式。

關鍵詞：幻見、受虐狂、真實層、絕爽、情感、自戀症

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