儒者的創傷－《餘生錄》的閱讀

Confucian PTSD: Reading Trauma in a Chinese Youngster's Memoir of 1653

司徒琳(Lynn A. Struve) ； 王成勉(Chen-Main Wang)

《臺灣師大歷史學報》 39期 (2008/06) Pp. 1-16

https://doi.org/10.6243/BHR.2008.039.001

摘要

本文在討論一位年輕人的回憶錄。在1640年代，滿清征服中國東南沿海地區的遽變中，年輕人的全家，在祖父帶領下一一自盡，使他成為孤兒。這位年輕人的記載，事實上是一部目錄，記載了那些因素引起「創傷後壓力失調」(Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)，也同時記載了另一些因素，用來「修通」(working through)這個症狀。本文的重點是：事件是否在經驗與記憶中留下創傷，及受創的心靈是否能夠痊癒，端視受創者的信念與價值系統為何。此處所顯示的是，一個孝順的孫子受困於朝代鼎革時期的殘酷戰亂下，他所篤信的儒家信念與價值體系是如何產生「修通」的功能。

關鍵字

創傷後壓力失調 ； 創傷記憶 ； 明清鼎革

並列摘要

This article discusses the memoir of a young man who was orphaned when his entire household, led by his esteemed grandfather, committed suicide in the throes of the Manchu-Qing conquest of southeastern coastal China in the 1640s. The youngster's account is a virtual catalog of the factors that induce and indicate post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as the circumstances that are conducive to ”working through” that syndrome. A principal point of this article is that whether events are traumatizing in experience and memory, and whether traumatized minds can be healed, depend greatly on a given person's beliefs and value system. Here are shown the workings of Confucian beliefs and values in the mind-and-body of a filial grandson caught in the cruelties of inter-dynastic warfare.

並列關鍵字

post-traumatic stress disorder ； traumatic memory ； Ming-Qing

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