蛻生為木：韓江《素食者》與創傷超越

Abstract

本論文旨在探討韓江《素食者》中植物性主體對於創傷回應的顛覆性介入。以拉岡「聖狀」（sinthome）及「絕爽」（jouissance）之觀念為本，本論文整合拉岡精神分析與麥克．馬德的批判性植物理論，透過對比英惠和姊夫的創傷反應，以深入解析一種超越人類中心的植物性抵抗樣態：《素食者》中英惠的植物性轉化作為一種獨特的聖狀，連結其人類與植物性自我，並透過其藝術技藝之植物思維展現，深刻啟發作為其姊姊的他者仁惠。超越既有女性主義、生物醫學、瘋狂理論與生態女性主義之解讀範疇，本論文指出《素食者》中英惠之身體症狀與植物思維展演可視為一種對當代人類-植物關係及文學中創傷解決方式的激進再想像，從而體現出植物性主體性介入父權-象徵秩序之創新倫理抵抗。

This thesis explores the transformative engagement of vegetal subjectivity as a response to trauma in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian. By synthesizing Lacanian psychoanalysis with Michael Marder’s philosophical framework of plant thinking, the thesis compares Yeong-hye’s and the brother-in-law’s trauma responses, providing insight into a new model of plant-based resistance that transcends anthropocentrism. The thesis posits that Yeong-hye’s vegetal transformation represents a unique sinthome, enabling her to engage with her vegetal self and develop an artistic know-how to perform plant thinking, as evidenced by the inspiration it offers her sister, In-hye. Moving beyond established feminist, biomedical, madness and ecofeminist readings, the thesis argues that Han Kang’s The Vegetarian portrays Yeong-hye’s bodily symptoms and performance of plant thinking as a radical reimagining of human-plant relations and trauma resolution in contemporary literature. Through this lens, the novel presents plant-based subjectivity as a form of ethical resistance to a Symbolic order permeated by patriarchal oppression.