ABSTRACT

According to orthodox psychoanalysis, “castration” is always negative: to lose the “phallus” is to lose everything. Against this account, this article argues that “castration desire” offers a model for sustainable relationality on an imminently eco-apocalyptic earth. Using the novel Never Let Me Go (2005) to explicate castration desire, this article posits that Kazuo Ishiguro's organ-donating clones – in acquiescing to their own diminishment, and thereby signalling a more other-oriented relationality – teach a comparatively privileged reader how to desire castration. This article moreover demonstrates how the less-is-more ethic of castration desire can help theorise the intersection of the environmental humanities and queer studies in order to help unpick the acquisitive logic of a globalised world that otherwise has us on a track to ecological ruin.

摘要

根据正统的精神分析，“阉割”总是消极的：失去“阴茎”就是失去一切。与此相反，本文认为“阉割欲望”为即将到来的生态世界末日的地球上的可持续关系提供了一个模型。使用小说《永不让我走》(2005) 为了解释阉割欲望，这篇文章假设石黑一雄的器官捐赠克隆——默许自己的减少，从而表明一种更加以他者为导向的关系——教会了一个相对特权的读者如何渴望阉割。此外，本文还展示了阉割欲望的少即是多伦理如何帮助将环境人文学科和酷儿研究的交叉理论化，以帮助解开全球化世界的贪婪逻辑，否则我们将走上生态毁灭的轨道。