Different Views on Human Subject

The Humanist (Cartesian) and the Contemporary

The Humanist (Cartesian)

1. Stable, Singular

2. Essential

3. (Liberal Humanist) Ultimately Free

The Humanist (Cartesian)

1. Stable /progressive, Singular

Examples: The hero and heroine in Titanic “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s

Day?” Traditional Novels Emily as a lonely spinster.

The Humanist (Cartesian)2. Essential (= Spritual or Rational)

1. Religious definitions of humans

2. Maternal Love

3. Romantic Poet = Imagination

4. I Think, therefore I Am.

I am where I don’t think.

I shop, therefore I am.

The Humanist (Cartesian)3. (Liberal Humanist) Free

(Liberal Humanist) Ultimately Free: Existentialist view

Individualism 只要我喜歡﹐沒有什麼不可以﹒

The Humanist The Contemporary

1. Stable/progressive, Singular

2. Essential

3. (Liberal Humanist) Ultimately Free

1. Double, Plural, Provisional, Split, or Fragmented

2. Sexual, Linguistic or Textual

3. Conditioned or Repressed

1. Double Location:

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The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Views （２）

Linguistic Subject Positions

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The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Examples

1. Double, Plural, Provisional,

Split, or Fragmented

“Metaphor” ；〈關鍵詞〉

The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Examples （２）

Conditioned or Repressed

Emily repressing her love for

the father;

conditioned by her class,

gender positions and

her function as a symbol

for Faulkner

The Contemporary Views of Human Subject: Some Examples （ 3 ）

Sexual, Linguistic or Textual

e.g. “Mindscape”

社會、歷史

印刷、出版者／ 社會機構 行銷者 社會機構

作者／父母 讀者／ 交往者

The Unconscious

Text // Self