Female Sexual Desire in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion

奧松對性慾的擁護及壓抑，透露出布雷克特意諷刺古代和聖經中的女性性慾問題。在古典古代中，女性性慾被當做是一種好好整合自我回歸本體的力量；在舊約聖經裡，女性性慾被視為是一種分裂的力量，促使了人類墮落的突然發生；在新約聖經中，女性性慾被看做是一種達成繁育人類目的的手段。因為女性性慾概念在古典古代、舊約聖經與新約聖經中都不一樣，所以《阿爾比恩女兒們的夢幻》詩中的女性性慾議題展現出一種會隨著主題變動的歷史建構意義。這就是女性主義觀點與反女性主義觀點以及壓抑和解放同時在《阿爾比恩女兒們的夢幻》詩中為何會撞擊在一起的原因。

關鍵字

性慾；古代；聖經

並列摘要

Oothoon's advocacy of sexual desire and her repression may expose Blake's intentional ironic juxtaposition of the issue of female sexual desire in Classical Antiquity and in the Scripture. In Classical Antiquity, sexual desire possessed by woman was regarded as the unifying energy of the well-integrated self. But, in the Old Testament, it was taken to be a disintegrating force which precipitated the Fall. In the New Testament, it was seen as a means to an end-reproduction. Because the conceptions of female sexual desire in Classical Antiquity, the Old Testament and the New Testament are diverse, the issue of female sexual desire in Visions of the Daughters of Albion manifests a historical construction with a subject in constant fluctuations. That is the reason why the feminist and anti-feminist views, the repressed sexuality and the liberated sexuality push against each other in Visions of the Daughters of Albion.