This article argues that Buck Mulligan’s bisexuality in James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses reveals Joyce’s less-discussed interest in the figure of the bisexual at a time when bisexuality was beginning to be theorised by various sexual scientists (sexologists) in the early twentieth-century. In this article, I examine Buck Mulligan as a bisexual character who evidences Joyce’s engagement with contemporary sexological attempts to define bisexuality in psychological terms, rather than the previous century’s investigations into bisexuality as physical hermaphroditism. I explore how Mulligan, in embodying and enacting a model of bisexual subjectivity, also elicits both homosexual and heterosexual impulses from other characters. This article addresses not only Joyce’s treatment of bisexuality, but also his views towards what bisexual scholars describe as ‘mononormativity’: the cultural assumptions that a person is sexually and romantically attracted to exclusively one gender (Monro, 2015: 12). Through this, the article reflects critically on those Buck-like victims of bi-erasure within the legal landscape of ‘compulsory monosexuality’ at the-turn-of-this-century (James, 1996: 321).

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我在哪里放？詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）的巴克·穆里根（Buck Mulligan），双性恋和当代立法实践

本文认为，巴克·穆里根（Buck Mulligan）在詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）1922年的小说《尤利西斯》（Ulysses）中的双性恋揭示了乔伊斯（Joyce）对双性恋形象的讨论较少，而当时双性恋在20世纪初被各种性科学家（性学家）开始理论化。在本文中，我将巴克·穆里根（Buck Mulligan）视为一个双性恋者，他证明了乔伊斯（Joyce）参与了当代性学尝试，以心理学的角度定义了双性恋，而不是上个世纪对双性恋作为生理上的雌雄同体进行了调查。我探索穆利根在体现和制定双性主观模型时，如何从其他角色中激发同性恋和异性恋冲动。本文不仅涉及乔伊斯对双性恋的治疗，以及他对双性恋学者所描述的“单性性”的观点：一个人在性爱和浪漫上仅被一个性别所吸引的文化假设（Monro，2015：12）。通过这篇文章，这篇文章批判性地反映了在本世纪之交的“强制性单性恋”的法律范围内，那些遭受双重伤害的巴克式双重受害者（James，1996：321）。