The Polyphonic Onyx： A Study of the Multi-layering of Plurisignification in William Shakespeare＇s Venus and Adonis  

作　　者：Dr. Aparajita Hazra 

机构地区：[1]SKB University, West Bengal, India

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2015年第8期573-579,共7页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：Shakespeare＇s Venus andAdonis, unlike the Ovidian original, sets the conventional ＂man-wooing-woman＂ context on its head, with the madly lovelorn Venus crazily serenading a very unwilling Adonis, who happens to be a person much younger than her in age as well. My article takes up this seemingly innocuous issue of man turning away from woman in order to probe into a multidimensional discourse of psychoanalysis as well as Queer Theory to try and understand the situation to find out the psychosis that might have been working at the back of Adonis＇s mind while turning his back petulantly on the importunate Venus. A qualitative analytical approach finds that psychoanalysis would analyze Adonis with the sixth stage of Eriksonian developmental adaptation in humans, while a Lacanian perspective at the issue would rake up suggestions of the ＂0bjet petit a＂ as the matheme of desire. Again, Queer theorists would stray into fields of discourse on alternate sexuality while hermeneutics would see Adonis＇s refusal of the normal, natural order of heterosexual love as a subversion of the macrocosmic rubric of the procreative Scala Naturae.

关 键 词：PSYCHOANALYSIS Queer Theory Objet petit a HERMENEUTICS Scala Naturae 

分 类 号：TS933.21[轻工技术与工程] B83-0[哲学宗教—美学]