本論文從拉岡精神分析觀點探討維吉尼亞．吳爾芙的作品，著重於拉岡精神分析中「精神結構」此一概念。我認為吳爾芙的精神結構屬於「歇斯底里」的範疇，而她的精神結構展現於她書寫的型式與內容之中：她的書寫即是一種「歇斯底里的言談」。我欲進一步證明，在她的作品中，吳爾芙能將自身從「歇斯底里的案主」轉換成「精神分析師」，將「歇斯底里的言談」轉換成「分析師的言談」。

論文共分四部分。緒論簡介作者維吉尼亞．吳爾芙、精神分析師雅克．拉岡，回顧相關文獻，勾勒理論框架、提出論文結構、並申明我的論點。第一章探討吳爾芙作品《自己的房間》，分析在此文本中吳爾芙如何得力於其歇斯底里精神結構，「質疑」(question)女人在陽性象徵次序中面對到的各種匱乏，而吳爾芙又是如何嘗試以其充滿顛覆動能的書寫，試圖顛覆壓迫女性的父權權力階級結構。吳爾芙更將自身從一歇斯底里的主體轉化成精神分析師，用分析師的言談來引導女性探索自己被父權社會壓抑的慾望。第二章探討吳爾芙作品《燈塔行》，分析在書寫此本小說過程中，吳爾芙下意識地洩漏自身想要從象徵界撤離並回歸母性想像界的慾望。雖然吳爾芙想要招換回與母親的一體融合感(unity)，但在潛意識中，她終究必須承認她無法掩蓋存有中的匱乏以及空缺，並因此遭遇到嚴重創傷。為了瞭解自身受到創傷的主要原因，吳爾夫首先必須將自己分裂成歇斯底里的案主/精神分析師，用分析師的言談叩問(question)、探求自己那一份被壓抑、亟欲回歸母性想像界的慾望。

結論重申研究的論點並整合前兩章的分析成果。

This study attempts to interpret Virginia Woolf’s works by appropriating Jacques Lacan’s theoretical concepts, especially the concept of “psychic structure.” I argue that Virginia Woolf’s psychic structure belongs to the category of hysteria and her psychic structure is revealed in both the form and content of her writing: her writing exemplifies “the hysteric’s discourse,” one of the four discourses conceptualized by Lacan. I want to further argue that, in her works, the hysterical Woolf can transform herself into the analyst, transforming the hysteric’s discourse into the analyst’s discourse.

The thesis is structured in four parts. In the introduction, I will introduce the author Virginia Woolf, Jacques Lacan, review relevant criticisms, construct the theoretical framework, and present the thesis structure as well as my arguments. In the first chapter I examine Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, arguing that, in this text, Woolf hysterically questions women’s lacks in the phallic symbolic order and experiments with her writing to subvert the hierarchal patriarchal society that oppresses women. Woolf, moreover, turns herself from being a hysteric into an analyst, adopting the analyst’s discourse to guide women to explore their desire repressed by the patriarchal society. In the second chapter I examine Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse, arguing that when writing the novel, Woolf unconsciously betrays her desire to withdraw from the Symbolic and regress into the maternal Imaginary order. Although, on the one hand, Woolf attempts to re-evoke the lost Imaginary mother-child dyad’s unity, on the other hand she unconsciously acknowledges that she cannot paper over the lack and void of being, and this recognition greatly traumatizes Woolf. To understand the fundamental cause of her trauma, Woolf splits herself into both a hysterical analysand and an analyst, adopting the analyst’s discourse to question and explore her repressed desire for the maternal Imaginary order.

In the concluding chapter I restate the thesis statement and summarize the analyses of the two previous chapters.

論文審定書…………………………………………………………………………...….i
Acknowledgement ………………………………………………………………………ii
摘要………………………………………………………………………………......…iii
Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………iv
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………...…...1
Virginia Woolf
Jacques Lacan
Literature Review
Theoretical Framework
Thesis Structure
Chapter One: A Room of One’s Own: Hysterically Questioning the Lack of the Symbolic Order…..………………………………………………………………..39
The Hysterical Woolf and the Hystericized Readers
Questioning Women’s Lacks in the Symbolic Order
Writing as Subversion of the Phallic Symbolic Order
Transformation from the Hysteric’s Discourse to the Analyst’s Discourse
Chapter Two: To the Lighthouse: Hysterically Questioning the Desire for the Maternal Imaginary Order……………………………………………………......80
Regression from the Symbolic to the Imaginary
Longing for the Imaginary Mother-child Dyadic Relationship
Encountering the Void of the Real
Transformation from the Hysteric to the Analyst
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………...…..117
Works Cited……………………………………………………………………….......122

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