本論文旨在以傅柯式權力、瘋狂、與性之分析詮讀維吉尼亞•吳爾芙的《戴洛維夫人》。米歇爾•傅柯的權力論述目的在於詮釋權力之正向性及權力與知識之間相關性。傅柯對於瘋狂與性史的研究闡論出理智與瘋狂、異性戀與同性戀之間的權力對峙。在《戴洛維夫人》中，吳爾芙透過兩位主角賽普提姆•華倫•史密斯與克萊麗莎•戴洛維的故事，亦呈現出這兩種對峙的權力。吳爾芙在此小說中不僅探討人類與社會制度的權力關係，更展現出這兩位主角對權力衝突的不同解決之道。
緒論概述傅柯式權力觀的理論架構及解釋傅柯式理論研究方法與《戴洛維夫人》小說的關聯性。首章探究造成賽普提姆瘋狂的原因及其與醫生之間的權力衝突，亦即，理智與瘋狂的權力對峙。以傅柯式的論點來看，理智與瘋狂的權力對峙意味著禁忌與越矩的權力關係。唯有透過不斷的越矩，禁忌的界線才能被意識到並且解放。第二章重於描繪克萊麗莎與莎莉之間的同性戀情愫。兩姝步入婚姻之決定正可反應出異性戀規範的權力。此章中，更進一步地討論吳爾芙從女性主義的觀點，表達女性在婚姻中的卑微地位。第三章主要詳述賽普提姆與克萊麗莎的相似性與他們對權力抗爭的不同解決方法。兩位主角都有同性戀傾向，因此，身處於道德與性別的異性戀規範中，他們對於所處的環境有疏離感。此疏離感導致他們有種受困於生與死兩端的感覺。賽普提姆與克萊麗莎都深刻地明瞭社會規範的權力，並試圖解脫在權力衝突中所產生的生與死的難局。賽普提姆的自殺象徵著他對理智的反抗及其結束權力衝突的決心。另一方面，克萊麗莎選擇繼續她原有的生活，以生存的希望來抗衡權力對峙。此論文之結論統整吳爾芙及傅柯對權力、瘋狂、與性的觀點。吳爾芙及傅柯帶領讀者了解「規範」乃社會與文化所共同建構而成，他們希望能鼓舞讀者去解構那些所謂的規範。

ABSTRACT
This thesis is focused on Foucauldian analysis of power, madness, and sexuality in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Michel Foucault’s assertion of power aims to explicate the positivity of exercises of power and power-knowledge nexus. Foucault’s study of madness and of the history of sexuality manifests the power confrontation between reason and madness, heterosexuality and homosexuality. In Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf also presents these two power confrontations through the stories of the two main characters, Septimus Warren Smith and Clarissa Dalloway. Woolf, in this novel, not only explores the power relationships between human beings and the social systems but also demonstrates the two main characters’ different solutions toward the power conflicts.
The Introduction begins with an overview of the theoretical frame of Foucauldian power and an explanation of the connection between Foucauldian approach and Mrs. Dalloway. In Chapter One, I discuss the cause of Septimus’s madness and the power conflict between Septimus and the doctors, i.e. the power confrontation between reason and madness. In Foucauldian term, the power confrontation between reason and madness signifies the power relation between taboo and transgression. Only through incessant movements of transgression, can the limit of taboo be sensed and emancipated. Chapter Two chiefly deals with the same-sex love between Clarissa and Sally. Their choice of marriage displays the power of the norm of heterosexuality. In this chapter, I, further, present Woolf’s feminist point of view toward women’s subordinate position in the marriage. In Chapter Three, I mainly describe the similarities between Septimus and Clarissa and their different resolutions toward power struggles. Both of them have the homosexual inclination; however, in the moral and sexual norm of heterosexuality, they have a sense of alienation from the circumstance they live in. This sense of alienation generates their feelings of being between the two poles of life and death. They both deeply realize the power of the social norms and try to solve their impasse between life and death in the power struggles. Septimus’s suicide symbolizes his resistance against the power of reason and his attempt of ending the power conflicts; on the other hand, Clarissa’s choice of continuing her life conveys a message of hope of survival to counterbalance the power confrontations. In Conclusion, I reiterate the research of Mrs. Dalloway with the synthesis of Woolf’s and Foucault’s point of view toward power, madness, and sexuality. Both Woolf and Foucault lead readers to understand that “norms” are socially and culturally constructed, and they endeavor to inspire readers to liberate those so-called norms.

Table of Contents
Introduction…………………………………………………………………………1

Chapter One: Power Relation between Reason and Madness………………………23

Chapter Two: Power Relation between Heterosexuality and Homosexuality………50

Chapter Three: Resistance and Epiphany……………………………………….76

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………..92

Work Cited………………………………………………………………………….97

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