The Psychosis of Power:A Lacanian Reading of Augusto Roa Bastos’s I the Supreme  

作　　者：William Egginton 

机构地区：[1]John Hopkins University

出　　处：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》2021年第2期4-11,155,共9页外国语言与文化（英文）

摘　　要：In the mid-seventies,Paraguay was two decades into what would ultimately be the second longest dictatorship in its history,second only to the reign of its“founding father,”Doctor Jose Rodriguez Gaspar de Francia.The regime of Alfredo Stroessner justified its existence and articulated its continued role in Paraguayan politics on a genealogy of national identity that had its supposed roots in the Francia government,Francia’s political ideology and,in fact,in the historical person of Francia himself.In this essay I show how the great Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos’s 1974 novel,I,the Supreme,takes aim at the“kernel of the real”in the Stroessner regime’s political genealogy,using fiction to make evident its anamorphic manipulation of national and nationalist identity.By taking at its word the regime’s historical discourse,I,the Supreme reveals the psychotic logic animating its version of political power.

关 键 词：Augusto Roa Bastos Paraguayan politics power and psychosis Lacan Zizek PSYCHOANALYSIS AUTHORITARIANISM 

分 类 号：I781[文学—其他各国文学]