ABSTRACT The ‘dream of the butterfly,’ which seals the second chapter of the Zhuangzi, is often interpreted as undergirded by the bipolarity of dreaming and awakening or by the elusive interchange of identities between Zhuangzi and the butterfly, dreamer and dreamed. In this paper I argue that the underlying structure of the story may be better interpreted as exhibiting not two, but three stages of development, consistently echoing other tripartite parables in the Zhuangzi. In my reinterpretation I rely on the phenomenology of dreams proposed by the Spanish philosopher María Zambrano, which distinguishes among three states: the primal dream, characterized by atemporality and wholeness; wakefulness, characterized by temporality and analytic thinking; and the creative dream, in which reality discloses itself as a meaningful, holistic unity. I suggest that Zhuangzi’s parable describes a similar self-transformative threefold process culminating in the joyous freedom of a shifting multifaceted subjectivity centered in the timeless pivot of the Dao.

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蝴蝶梦作为“创意梦”：在庄子和玛丽亚·赞布拉诺的梦境和主观性

摘要庄子第二章的“蝴蝶梦”常常被解释为是梦与觉醒的两极性，或者是庄子与蝴蝶，梦者和梦者之间身份的互换。在本文中，我认为，故事的基本结构可以更好地解释为：展示的不是发展阶段，而是三个阶段，始终与庄子中其他三方寓言相呼应。在我的重新解释中，我依赖于西班牙哲学家玛丽亚·赞布拉诺（MaríaZambrano）提出的梦的现象学，它区分了三种状态：原始梦，具有暂时性和整体性；具有时间性和分析性思维的清醒性；和创造性的梦想，在现实中，现实将自己展示为有意义的整体统一体。