Repression and Its Discontents in the Cur rent Sexual Discour ses in Taiwan
Date Issued
1998-07-31
Date
1998-07-31
Author(s)
DOI
872411H002038
Abstract
During the process of executing this
project, it is found that the project’s central
concept, repression, is composed of two
different things: repression, which is what
Freud expounds upon in “Repression,” “The
Unconscious,” and The Interpretation of
Dreams, and suppression, which is what
Freud complains about in “’Civilized’ Sexual
Morality and Modern Nervous Illness” and
which is principally an external force. On the
whole, Freud tends to lump the two concepts
together under the term of “repression.” This
confusion seems to be the root of the
oversimplification characterizing some of the
popular applications of Freudian theory (e.g.,
the various anti-repression movements).
After clearing up the mechanisms of
repression and of suppression, as well as the
interaction between them, it is found that the
present predicament of the relationship
between the two sexes results from this fact:
the man has been led to develop an excessively strong repression while the
suppression that is imposed on him is
comparatively weak; on the other hand, the
woman does not have the chance to evolve a
repression that is sufficiently strong while
she is burdened with relentless and manifold
suppression.
Equipped with the foregoing findings and
related knowledge, efforts are made to
formulate guidelines for reforming the
relationship between the sexes: on the one
hand, male repression should be weakened
while the suppression he is subjected to
should be increased; on the other hand,
female repression should be strengthened
while the suppression that is forced on her
should be greatly alleviated. This means that,
as a whole, male authority and male
representation should be weakened while
female authority and female representation
should be strengthened.
Among the countries in the world, the
Scandinavian ones, especially Sweden, have
laws and policies that are most in accordance
with the foregoing guidelines; this proves the
latter’s validity. Therefore, Sweden is used as
a paradigm in the following analyses of the
current laws and the drafts for new laws in
our country concerning sexuality and the
body.
Analysis of the formal and the popular or
informal discourses of sex education, which
the project has promised to undertake in
addition to that of the legal discourses, have
not been executed owing to lack of time.
Subjects
feminism
psychoanalysis
repression
sexual discourse
SDGs
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學外國語文學系暨研究所
Type
report
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