ABSTRACT Through analyzing the narratives of two elders experiencing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as personal performances of identity, this essay explores repetition in interpersonal interactions beyond a familiar diagnostic sign of the progression of memory loss. The author argues that, as AD hinders the body’s ability to diversify language and adhere to cultural expectations for personal performances, the visceral desire that compels humans to perform for/with one another surfaces in concentrated vivid form: bodies responding to the world desire to reiterate meanings that matter to others, knowing these meanings are only real to the extent they are (re)performed in daily life.

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内心的遗骸：通过阿尔茨海默病的个人叙述揭示人类对表演的渴望

摘要 本文通过分析两位老人经历阿尔茨海默病 (AD) 作为身份的个人表现的叙述，探讨了人际交往中的重复，超越了熟悉的记忆丧失进展的诊断标志。作者认为，由于 AD 阻碍了身体多样化语言的能力并坚持对个人表演的文化期望，迫使人类为彼此表演/与他人一起表演的本能欲望以集中生动的形式表现出来：身体对世界的反应渴望重申对他人重要的意义，知道这些意义只有在日常生活中（重新）表现出来时才是真实的。