ABSTRACT

Zhuang Zi has a seminal influence on Jacques Lacan. Seeing enables an observer to penetrate into the nature of the examined thing so that he will have a potential mastery over the observed object. Zhuang Zi encourages us to go beyond human vision and to look at the world from the perspective of the gaze of things. The transition from the eye to the gaze ushers us into a posthumanist world in which multiple species constitute a symbiotic existence. Likewise, Lacan rewrites the triple functions of seeing into scientific discourse as “the moment of seeing,” “the stage of understanding,” and “the moment to conclude.” Unlike Zhuang Zi, Lacan confines the gaze within linguistic signifiers and ascribes its elusiveness to castration. This central lack (castration) could only be observed from an oblique perspective, otherwise it will produce anamorphosis. The trajectory from the eye to the gaze constitutes the Lacanian desire.

摘要

庄子对雅克·拉康有着开创性的影响。观察使观察者能够洞察被观察事物的本质，从而对被观察的物体有潜在的掌握。庄子鼓励我们超越人类的视野，以事物的眼光看世界。从眼睛到凝视的过渡将我们带入了一个后人类主义世界，在这个世界中，多个物种构成了共生的存在。同样，拉康将看的三重功能改写为“看的时刻”、“理解的阶段”和“结束的时刻”。与庄子不同，拉康将凝视限制在语言能指内，并将其难以捉摸归咎于阉割。这种中央缺失（阉割）只能从斜向观察，否则会产生变形。