Discipline, Symbolization, and Implicit Complicity: The “Cage” of Patriarchal Order and Female Psychological Trauma in Lolita


Journal of Literary Writing and Evaluation

JLWE, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2025, pp.275-285.

Print ISSN: 3078-8129; Online ISSN: 3104-5073

Journal homepage: https://www.lwejournal.com

DOI: Https://doi.org/10.64058/JLWE.25.2.09


规训、符号化与隐性共谋:
《洛丽塔》中父权秩序的“囚笼”与女性心理创伤

 

黄思涵(Huang Sihan), 张连桥Zhang Lianqiao

 

摘要:洛丽塔的精神认知受到母亲夏洛特、继父亨伯特、奎尔蒂以及所接受的集体教育四层父权力量的异化影响。福柯通过对不同社会领域与历史语境的比较考察,揭示了权力运作的多种形态:规训权力、生命权力、知识权力、话语权力以及主权权力在人际互动中的创伤性。《洛丽塔》中呈现出一种嵌套性的“父权牢笼”规训:从小我家庭内部母亲夏洛特的教育规训,到小我情感关系里亨伯特在想象层面将洛丽塔符号化的控制,再到社会机制层面的隐性纵容,如剧作家奎尔蒂的影视权力、比尔兹利学校的教育原则,洛丽塔的心理异化正是由这些权力力量叠加规训造成的。

关键词:《洛丽塔》;心理创伤成因;父权规训;资本主义消费文化;女性形象的神化

作者简介:黄思涵,广州大学人文学院硕士研究生,研究方向:比较文学与世界文学。电邮:815143657@qq.com 张连桥(通信作者),广州大学人文学院教授,电邮:zhanglianqiao@gzhu.com

 

Title: Discipline, Symbolization, and Implicit Complicity: The “Cage” of Patriarchal Order and Female Psychological Trauma in Lolita

Abstract: Lolita’s spirit is influenced by the alienation of four patriarchal forces: her mother Charlotte, her stepfather Humbert, Quilty and the collective education power she receives. Foucault reveals various forms of power operation through different social fields and historical contexts: disciplinary power, life power, knowledge power, discourse power, and sovereign power in interpersonal interaction—Lolita presents a nested “paternal cage”: from the internal educational discipline of mother Charlotte within private family to the symbolic control of private emotional relationships with Humbert at the level of the imaginary, and then to the implicit indulgence at the social mechanism levelsuch as Quilty’s power as a screenwriter, Beardsley School’s education principles .Lolita's psychological alienation is caused by the superimposition of these educational powers.

Keywords: Lolita; Trauma Origins; Patriarchal Discipline; Capitalist Consumer Culture; The Deification of Female Images

Author Biography: Huang Sihan, Master’s Candidate at the School of Humanities, Guangzhou University. Research Area: Comparative Literature and World Literature. E-mail: 815143657@qq.com. Zhang Lianqiao (Corresponding Author), Professor at the School of Humanities, Guangzhou University. E-mail: zhanglianqiao@gzhu.com.



    Received: 25 Sep 2025 / Revised: 1 Nov 2025 / Accepted: 4 Nov 2025 / Published online: 30 Nov 2025 / Print published: 30 Dec 2025.