Abstract:In a sketch of the seven-text cycle Orkus, the Austrian author Gerhard Roth likened the realm of silence—often a guilty silence—he explored in his works to the underworld, an "invisible 'other world' that is probed, and not really understood or 'explained'…in psychoanalysis." Examining the cycle's inaugural novel, The Lake, this essay argues that a multi-theoretical psychoanalysis is indeed able to help readers craft a nuanced understanding of the counter-world of Roth's characters, and that in turn the novel illuminates aspects of psychoanalytic thinking. Its fractal structure engages with chaos not by trying to master it, but by allowing its order to emerge; its temporal unfolding is only comprehensible after the fact; and the subjectivity that emerges from its traumatic core is in touch, precariously, with a truth that defies simple explanation.

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分形历史：在格哈德·罗斯的《湖》中构建精神分析真理

摘要：奥地利作家格哈德·罗斯（Gerhard Roth）在七文本循环 Orkus 的草图中，将他在作品中探索的沉默领域（通常是一种罪恶的沉默）比作冥界，一个“被探查的隐形‘另一个世界’，并且没有真正理解或‘解释’……在精神分析中。” 审查周期的首部小说，湖，这篇文章认为，多理论的精神分析确实能够帮助读者对罗斯角色的反世界进行细致入微的理解，而小说反过来又阐明了精神分析思维的各个方面。它的分形结构不是通过试图掌握它，而是通过允许它的秩序出现来与混沌接触；它的时间展开只有在事后才能理解；从其创伤性核心中浮现出来的主观性，岌岌可危，