A t this University Forum, William Veeder, Professor Emeritus of English (University of Chicago), Susan Griffin, Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar (University of Louisville) and Editor of the Henry James Review, and Lucy LaFarge, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Weill Cornell Medical College) and Regional Editor for North America, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, convened to discuss Henry James’s masterpiece, The Golden Bowl (1904). Hilary Beattie, analyst and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Columbia University), was the chair and moderator. Taken together, the panelists’ comments focused on James’s depiction of processes of not knowing, unconscious motivations underlying sadomasochistic fantasy, and consequences of forestalling internal and external knowledge, from the dehumanization of others to stagnation of the self. Dialogue among the speakers modeled the mobilization of interpretive processes by which subjects, like stories, continually reconstitute meaning. To lay the groundwork for this discussion, I begin with a brief summary of the novel. The story opens in London with Maggie Verver, a young American woman, and her father, Adam, a wealthy financier, amid preparations for Maggie’s upcoming wedding to Prince Amerigo, a handsome and charismatic Italian man of noble stock and meager means. On the eve of the marriage, the Prince encounters Charlotte Stant, a beautiful yet penniless young woman with whom many years earlier he had had a romantic relationship. Charlotte and Maggie are old childhood friends, but Maggie does not know about Charlotte and Amerigo’s history. Tacitly agreeing that they will keep their past relationship a secret, Charlotte and Amerigo spend one last evening together, shopping for a gift for Maggie.

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亨利詹姆斯的金碗

在本次大学论坛上，英语名誉教授（芝加哥大学）William Veeder、英语教授和杰出大学学者（路易斯维尔大学）和 Henry James Review 编辑 Susan Griffin 以及精神病学临床教授 Lucy LaFarge （威尔康奈尔医学院）和北美地区编辑，国际精神分析杂志，聚集在一起讨论亨利詹姆斯的杰作，金碗（1904）。Hilary Beattie，精神病学分析师和助理临床教授（哥伦比亚大学），是主席和主持人。总的来说，小组成员的评论集中在詹姆斯对不知道过程的描述、施虐受虐幻想背后的无意识动机以及阻止内部和外部知识的后果，从对他人的非人化到自我的停滞。演讲者之间的对话模拟了解释过程的动员，主题（如故事）通过这些过程不断重构意义。为了为这次讨论奠定基础，我首先对小说进行一个简短的总结。故事开始于伦敦，年轻的美国女性玛吉·维弗 (Maggie Verver) 和她的父亲亚当 (Adam) 是富有的金融家，玛吉即将与亚美利哥王子 (Prince Amerigo) 举行婚礼，亚美利哥王子是一位英俊而富有魅力的意大利男子，出身高贵，家境贫寒。在结婚前夕，王子遇到了夏洛特·斯坦特（Charlotte Stant），一位美丽但身无分文的年轻女子，多年前他与她有过一段浪漫的关系。Charlotte 和 Maggie 是儿时的老朋友，但 Maggie 并不了解 Charlotte 和 Amerigo 的历史。