Abstract
Psychoanalysis, a historically evolving discourse, has the radical and socially transformative potential. By addressing the sex centered mode in psychoanalytical criticism and by tracing certain fraught moments in Ding Ling's fiction, this paper suggests that private love can be an integral part of collective solidarity, that unconscious drives can propel the impulse for social change, and that libidinal energy can fuel political passion and collective action. Clarifying the concept of "sublimation", and analyzing "positive sublimation" process in which libidinal energy turns into political passion, this paper will challenge the rigid separation of libidinal life from social commitment, love from politics, and the individual from the collective.
First Page
6
Last Page
17
Recommended Citation
Wang, Ban, and Xiaohua Cao. 2015. "Passion and Politics in Revolution: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Ding Ling." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (5): pp.6-17. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss5/15
