Abstract This paper joins the discussions on imaginal dialogue with references to the relational turn in psychoanalysis. It explores imaginal dialogue as a creative, relational endeavour in evoking the unconscious materials. By describing my own imaginal dialogue with Virginia Woolf, it exemplifies the potentiality of reading as an embodied, co-constructed interplay between the reader and the text. The deepening of relational and dialogical engagement with the text not only stirs the affective depth in the reader, but also brings the reader to conjure the presence of the author as an object for relatedness in the process of narrative inquiry. Imaginal dialogue transgresses beyond the poststructuralist allowance of interpretive pluralism to relational processes of working with the encounters with the presence of the author as their imaginary co-inquirer. Imaginal dialogue, I argue, not only provides an alternative kind of narrative framing, but the imaginal relationship becomes the very locus of knowledge creation.

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想象对话作为一种叙事探究的方法

摘要 本文加入了对想象对话的讨论，并提到了精神分析中的关系转向。它探索想象对话作为唤起无意识材料的创造性、相关性努力。通过描述我自己与弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（Virginia Woolf）的想象对话，它举例说明了阅读作为读者与文本之间具体化的、共同构建的相互作用的潜力。与文本的关系和对话参与的深化不仅激发了读者的情感深度，而且使读者在叙事探究过程中联想到作者作为关联对象的存在。想象的对话超越了解释多元主义的后结构主义允许，进入了与作者作为他们想象的共同探究者在场的相遇的关系过程。我认为，想象对话不仅提供了另一种叙事框架，而且想象关系成为知识创造的真正场所。