سکسوئیشن و اختگی: بررسی روان شناختی امکان ناپذیری روابط جنسی در رمان "شکننده" لیزا آنگر (Persian)

Introduction: The present paper proposes that Lisa Unger's Fragile (2010) is involved in a late capitalis t social phenomenon that announces both the extinction of the authoritative Oedipal Father and the liberation of mOther and son from his reign. The Hollowers in the novel are incapable of experiencing any real sexual relationship the lack of which heavily influences their personal and social life. The present paper reveals that even the Hollowers' commitment of rape, inces t, and even murder cannot compensate for the enjoyment of the proper sexual relationship they are innately deprived of. In Fragile, both man and woman infer an ancient rivalry over jouissance from their sexual relationship. Accordingly, Unger's characters orches trate various psychological schemes for optimum pleasure from their sexual relationship, while they become involved with some irreparable psychological disorders that neither supply them with their desired pleasure from sex, nor release them from the sexual traumas that permanently remain with them. Background of S tudy: Between Žižek and Badiou, there is no contention that the contemporary man cannot live up to the name and authority associated with the Oedipal Father, and epitomize the Big Phallus of the Symbolic Order. However, while Žižek reduces woman to an object of exchange between father and son (Žižek, Enjoy Symptoms! 75), Badiou does not consider her as a passive object-cause-of-desire; quite contrary, to Badiou, woman can freely serve and express her social and sexual identity and challenge man's long-held symbolic superiority (Badiou, True Life 82). The sexuation theory extensively covers the sexual relationship between man and woman and discusses that proper and meaningful sexual relationship is impossible due to the fact both man and woman view it as a place to demand their jouissance. Methodology: Sexual relationship in proper sense, as the sexuation theory implies, is impossible, for man uses it to dominate woman whereas he is basically under delusions of authority (Žižek, Enjoy Symptoms! 156). The sexuation theory publicizes the decline of the Oedipal Father and the latecapitalis t phenomenon of orphan bodies that the anal father of jouissance adopts in order to promote frenzied consumerism and monopolized jouissance (Felicia Cosey 6). However, the Oedipal Father's collapse is followed by the subject's metamorphosis into the 'sacrificed body' that is perplexed with inexplicable che vuoi ques tions regarding his symbolic value. The Oedipal Father now morbidly envies his son's firm ties with his wife through what Badiou coins as 'infantilization' (Tutt 10). Žižek's underrating insight to woman as merely "one of the Names of the Father" (Žižek, Enjoy Symptoms 169) is weighed agains t Badiou's view of woman as a free agent of herself. This paper finds pertinent the sexuation theory with the psychological disorders of 'neurosis', 'psychosis', and 'perversion', and illus trates the subject's crushing oscillation between the pleasure of sexual intimacy and the preservation of consciousness and symbolic integrity. Conclusion: The sexual relationship in Lisa Unger's Fragile is a devas tating experience rather than a pleasurable one; indeed, the more they try to enjoy their sexual relationship, the more dismayed they become. Fragile, in line with Žižek's psychoanalytic hypotheses, demons trated that authentic sexual relationship is profoundly influenced by the subject's process of phallic cas tration that permanently takes him away from the Imaginary Order and the Real encompassed in; therefore, both man and woman presume the sexual relationship as a way to retrieve the los t Real. This article illus trated that in the pos t-capitalism era, the res trictive Freudian Oedipal Father cannot survive and exert his influence on his household; ins tead, as the novel of Fragile indicates, the contemporary father is eclipsed by his wife and son's s trong emotional ties that have shaped after he los this symbolic authority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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