On the Way to the Other: Dread, Wonder, Awe

Q3 Social Sciences

Studies in Gender and Sexuality Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/15240657.2021.1883850

Jerome A. Miller

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Imagine a young child who shrinks from—but can’t take her eyes off—a Stranger who’s been invited into her home. This child’s dread-charged awe before the Stranger brings into focus the tension fundamental to our lives—our being torn between openness to the unprecedented future and the desire to protect ourselves from it. Dialoguing with Loewald, Freud, and Heidegger, I consider the radical anxiety the child experiences when exposed to the dreadful not—the absence of the needed. Dialoguing with Aristotle, I discuss how wonder draws the child into harmonious play with alterities that are intelligible to her. However, from the beginning the child is surrounded by alterities whose transcendence overwhelms her. We recoil from such transcendence because it fills us with dread, are drawn to it because it fills us with awe. Dread-charged awe in the face of the other, especially the human Other, is, I argue, the quintessential human experience.

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在通往他者的路上:恐惧，惊奇，敬畏

摘要想象一下，一个年幼的孩子因为一个陌生人被邀请到家里来而退缩，但却目不转睛。在《陌生人》之前，这个孩子的恐惧充满了敬畏，这让我们关注到了我们生活的根本紧张——我们在对前所未有的未来的开放和保护自己免受未来伤害的愿望之间左右为难。在与Loewald、Freud和Heidegger的对话中，我认为孩子在面对可怕的事物时所经历的极度焦虑——缺乏所需的东西。在与亚里士多德的对话中，我讨论了好奇心是如何将孩子带入和谐的游戏中的，她可以理解这些变化。然而，从一开始，孩子就被各种各样的超越所包围。我们对这种超越感到退缩，因为它让我们充满恐惧，我们被它吸引，因为它使我们充满敬畏。面对他人，尤其是人类，恐惧充满了敬畏。我认为，他人是典型的人类体验。

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Studies in Gender and Sexuality Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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期刊介绍： Beginning in the final two decades of the 20th century, the study of gender and sexuality has been revived from a variety of directions: the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies have all contributed to renewed fascination with those powerfully formative aspects of subjectivity that fall within the rubric of "gender" and "sexuality." Clinicians, for their part, have returned to gender and sexuality with heightened sensitivity to the role of these constructs in the treatment situation, including the richly variegated ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality enter into our understandings of "normality" and "pathology."