英:fragmented body; 法:corps morcele
碎裂的身体的概念是在拉康著作中出现得最早的原创性概念之一,并且与镜子阶段 (MIRROR STAGE)的概念有着紧密的关联。在镜子阶段中,幼儿会将自己在镜中的映像视作一个整体/综合,而借由对比,这一知觉便会引起(在此阶段上缺乏运动性协调的)幼儿自己的身体是割裂的与碎裂的知觉。由此种碎裂感所激起的焦虑,便催化了自我借以形成的镜像认同。然而,对于一个综合性自我的预期,却会在此后不断地受到此种碎裂感的记忆的威胁,其表现即是“阉割、去势、残缺、肢解、脱臼、剖腹、吞噬、身体爆开的形象”(E, 11)。在治疗中的一个特殊时期一当分析者的侵凌性在负性转移中呈现出来的时候一这些形象便会典型地出现在分析者的梦境与联想之中。这个时刻是治疗在正确的方向上进展的一个重要的早期标志,即朝向自我的坚固统一性的崩解 (Lacan, 1951b:13)
从更加一般的意义上说,碎裂的身体不仅指涉于有关物理性身体的种种形象,而且还指涉于任何有关碎裂与不统整的感觉:“他【主体】原本即是一个尚未完备的欲望聚合体一你们在此得到了‘碎裂的身体’这一表达的真正意义”(S3,39)。任何这样的不统整感都会威胁到将自我构筑起来的那一综合的幻象。
拉康还用碎裂的身体的概念来说明癔症的某些典型症状。当癔症性瘫痪波及某一肢体的时候,它并不关涉于神经系统的生理结构,而是相反,反映出了身体经由一种“想象的解剖”(imaginaryanatomy)而被割裂开来的方式。以此种方式,碎裂的身体便“被展现在器质性的层面上,正如癔症的精神分裂样症状与痉挛性症状所展示的那样,被展现在界定幻想解剖学 (anatomy of phantasy)的那些碎裂化 (fraglization)的线索之中”(E, 5)。
(corps morcele) The notion of the fragmented body is one of the earliest originalconcepts to appear in Lacan's work, and is closely linked to the concept of the MIRRORSTAGE. In the mirror stage the infant sees its reflection in the mirror as awhole/synthesis, and this perception causes, by contrast, the perception of its own body (which lacks motor coordination at this stage) as divided and fragmented. The anxietyprovoked by this feeling of fragmentation fuels the identification with the specular imageby which the ego is formed. However, the anticipation of a synthetic ego is henceforthconstantly threatened by the memory of this sense of fragmentation, which manifestsitself in 'images of castration, emasculation, mutilation, dismemberment, dislocation, evisceration, devouring, bursting open of the body'which haunt the human imagination (E, 11). These images typically appear in the analysand's dreams and associations at aparticular phase in the treatment-namely, the moment when the analysand'saggressivity emerges in the negative transference. This moment is an important early signthat the treatment is progressing in the right direction,i.e.towards the disintegration ofthe rigid unity of the ego (Lacan, 1951b:13).
In a more general sense, the fragmented body refers not only to images of the physicalbody but also to any sense of fragmentation and disunity: 'He [the subject]is originallyan inchoate collection of desires-there you have the true sense of the expressionfragmented body' (S3,39). Any such sense of disunity threatens the illusion of synthesiswhich constitutes the ego.
Lacan also uses the idea of the fragmented body to explain certain typical symptomsof hysteria.When a hysterical paralysis affects a limb,it does not respect thephysiological structure of the nervous system,but instead reflects the way the body isdivided up by an 'imaginary anatomy'.In this way,the fragmented body is 'revealed atthe organic level,in the lines of fragilization that define the anatomy of phantasy,asexhibited in the schizoid and spasmodic symptoms of hysteria'(E,5).