In the Austrian novel Venus in fur coats, the author Mossock describes a galicia aristocratic landowner, Saunin, who was particularly sober-minded, often with a serious spirit, and sometimes a little bit of learning, such a nobleman fell in love with the beautiful widow Wanda, but after the marriage proposal failed, Saunin made a request to become Wanda's slave and signed a binding agreement. One of the terms of the agreement was: "Wanda could punish the slave not only for even the slightest negligence and offense, but also for his own pleasure or merely as a diversion, as long as it pleased her." She even had the right to kill him if she wanted to. ”
Freud said, "In the male fantasy, to be whipped is to be loved." ”
Saunin was willing to be driven by Wanda, punished by her, and gave her the power of life and death. Such love is called sadomasochism in psychology. The word "sadomasochism" in English is sadomasochism, which is a combination of the concepts of sadism and masochism.
Maybe some people don't understand this love pattern, can't they love each other happily? Why abuse and masochism? Today I want to interpret this Tanizaki Junichiro's masterpiece "Harumi Copy", which is also an extreme sadomasochism.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Abuser Haruka: Making up for his inner loss and emptiness by torturing Sasuke. </h1>
Chunqin was born in a large family of rich and noble, born beautiful, deeply loved by her parents, but her fate was not good, and she suddenly suffered from eye diseases and blindness at the age of 9. After that, she had to give up her good dancing skills and specialize in the three-stringed piano.
Sasuke is a country attendant, 4 years older than Haruka, and in Sasuke's eyes, the blind Haruka has an incredible temperament charm that makes him fall in love with it. By chance, he was entrusted by Haruka to take her hand every day to send her to school, this job is a twilight for Sasuke, he loves Haruka, but he knows that his identity is thousands of miles away from her status as Miss Qianjin, and it is a great comfort to be able to accompany her to study every day.
It can be said that the masochism began from this moment, and Sasuke's humble cognition laid the foundation for his masochistic status in the future.
After becoming blind, Haruka's personality becomes willful and impermanent, often making it difficult for Sasuke, and Sasuke constantly caters to her preferences, and gradually, Haruka's stubbornness and willfulness become more obvious to Sasuke, more aimed at him. Sasuke, who is obsessed with admiration, does not feel that he is being harassed, but feels that Haruka is extra kind to her, and he is willing to eat.
Sasuke later learned the three-stringed piano, worshiping Chunqin as a teacher, the relationship between the two of them in addition to the master and servant, but also added a layer of master-apprentice relationship, Haruka can be described as quite strict with Sasuke, in the teaching process often beat and scolded him.
"Sasuke, did I teach you that?"
"No, you must practice, otherwise you will practice until dawn."
"Stupid, why don't you remember?" While arguing, he took out his koto and hit Sasuke on the head.
Haruka's harshness towards Sasuke became a habit, and Haruka herself forgot her original sense of loneliness in this busy teaching. Turning into a blind woman, her heart is unwilling and lonely, Sasuke's appearance allows her to find the confidence to be worshipped and the satisfaction of her infinite obedience.
Chunqin is immersed in this sadistic behavior, also to meet her own inner needs.
When Haruka was 16 years old and Sasuke was 20 years old, Haruka's parents intended to keep Sasuke as a son-in-law, but they were ruthlessly rejected by Haruka. But Chunqin was pregnant, but she kept silent about whose flesh and bones it was. Asked if it was Sasuke, Haruka said dismissively: How could he be such an apprentice. Even if everyone thought that the two of them had already changed from a master-apprentice relationship to a husband and wife relationship, Chunqin still firmly denied it.
Later, Haruka and Sasuke independently opened their doors and accepted apprentices, Sasuke still took care of her, not tired at all, and the rumors of their marriage became an open secret, but Haruka still maintained a proud attitude, that is, not to marry Sasuke, nor to admit his intimate relationship with him.
After decades of this, Chunqin suffered the second blow of her life, and her face was poured with boiling hot water, resulting in her snow-white face being destroyed overnight. Chunqin's heart changed greatly overnight, and she did not let outsiders look at her face. Sasuke, in order to always be with her, took a needle and pierced his eyeball, which also blinded himself.
"Master, I am already blind, and I will not be able to see your face for the rest of my life."
"Sasuke, is what you say true?" Chun Qin actually had a trace of joy in her heart.
Until Haruka's death, Sasuke took good care of her as always, not slacking off or slacking off because of her disfigurement. In this period of sadistic love, Chunqin has always been in a condescending position, using her arrogance and willfulness to support her inner uneasiness and inferiority. Did she ever love Sasuke? Maybe there's a little bit of love, but more of a sense of accomplishment and the kind of pride that women get through the ravages on him.
She was always reluctant to marry Sasuke, which also showed that she liked such a condescending master-apprentice relationship, if she married Sasuke, under the social atmosphere at that time, women married everything to their husbands, how could the arrogant Harumin be willing to fall off the altar and bow down to Sasuke?
After reading the whole book, I also feel that Haruka is a poor person, gifted, with a moving appearance, but she has to encounter the ups and downs of fate one after another, she must be inferior in her heart, and her arrogance is also deliberate, but she wants to suppress this inferiority, she rarely has a pleasant face for Sasuke, but she is also happy, Sasuke used the most humble love to accompany her for the rest of her life.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Sasuke the Masochist: Love is the source of all humility</h1>
From the first time Sasuke saw Haruka, a humble seed was planted, she was a lady of the master's house, and she was just a servant, although she was a blind woman, but in Sasuke's heart, she existed like a fairy.
Haruka was very rude to him, scolding him without fighting, Sasuke never felt that this was suffering, but felt that it was Haruka's "unique grace" to himself, and here I have to say that Sasuke is really a masochist.
The philosopher Kenro Doi believes that there is a peculiar phenomenon in Japanese culture: pampering. The so-called "pampering" is "the dependent desire to be loved". The prototype of pampering is the mother-child relationship, and the son wants to be spoiled, pitied, and disciplined by his mother. People with masochistic tendencies also tend to have this kind of "pampering" psychology. "People with masochistic tendencies want to be treated like a delicate and helpless child."
And Sasuke took Haruka's scolding as an expression of love, and this kind of abuse was even self-inflicted. Sasuke's attachment to Haruka is infantile, and when he is abused here, he cries, in Haruka's words, "What a miserable person Sasuke is!" A man, who couldn't stand even a little thing, cried out loud, like something big. ”
Sasuke's love for Haruka has long been deeply rooted in the marrow, and he is willing to do anything for Haruka.
The climax of the book is the part where Sasuke stabs the blind eye by himself, because he doesn't want to embarrass Haruko after the disfigurement, Sasuke thinks of this method, if he can't see her mutilated face, then she will always be the previous moving face in her heart.
"Probably anyone thinks it's unfortunate to be blind. But since I became blind, I had never tasted such feelings, but on the contrary, I felt in my heart that the world had become a pure land of bliss, as if only me and Master Chunqin were alive and living on the lotus platform. ”
After the disfigurement, Haruka's mood was already different from the past, but Sasuke not only continued to maintain the etiquette of the master and the subordinate, but even served more humbly than before, trying to make Haruka forget the misfortune and regain her self-confidence as soon as possible. No matter what, he had to regard Chunqin as the arrogant Chunqin of the past, and he was unwilling to break all the memories in his mind about Chunqin's past.
Most of the sadomasochistic parties are combined in interdependent emotions and joys, and love occupies an extremely important position in sadomasochistic relationships. Sasuke's love is sadomasochistic or "pretentious", and the most important thing is that love to the depths is humble, it is fulfillment, it is willing.
When Sasuke willingly becomes a blind man, he also completely touches Haruka's heart, and an inexplicable love really surrounds them. Perhaps the process is tortuous, sadistic, and even not accepted by ordinary people, but this sadomasochistic relationship can also be regarded as a good belonging, and they have grown old together and spent a lifetime together.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Junichiro Tanizaki's "aesthetic literature"</h1>
Like Venus in a Fur Coat, the victims of abuse are men, while the abusers are women. "Venus in a Fur Coat" appeared in Austria in the West and in Europe in the 19th century, and male hegemony has declined; while "Chunqin Copy" appears in Japan, which still has a strong sense of male power even today, and it seems inconceivable that men are abused by women. But in fact, Japanese society has a sense of male power on the one hand, and on the other hand, it has a tendency to "worship women". These two are two sides of the coin.
In fact, in many of Tanizaki Junichiro's works, it can be seen that his tendency to "worship women", the bowing to women, and the pursuit of beauty that transcends ethical thinking are the distinctive themes of Tanizaki Junichiro's literary career. In his novel "Rao Taro", it is written that the protagonist's torture of the woman shows a perverted fascination, and the more the woman loves him, the more he desires the woman to cruelly torture him, so that he reaches a state of hyperactive trance. In "Tomiko's Feet", he simply wrote about the worship of feet, the fascination with beautiful feet: the maid Tomiko's feet are so beautiful that when the old master is dying, he cannot eat, so he asks Fumiko to pinch the cotton with the fingers of his feet and dip the rice soup into his mouth.
So it's not hard for us to understand the reason for Sasuke's crazy worship of Haruka in Haruka. The difference between "Chunqin Copy" and the early works is that in the early days, he was deeply influenced by the West, always expressing the aesthetic realm of "ugly as beauty" of demonicism, and in the later period, he returned to the stage of oriental classic aesthetics, so he shaped the quiet and elegant oriental beauty of Chunqin.
In Tanizaki's literary world, beauty is the measure of everything, and he is known as the representative of Japanese "aesthetic" literature. Junichiro Tanizaki indulged in the feeling of beauty all his life, and his loyalty to beauty was always the same, never pursuing anything other than beauty. There is no mention of politics in his work, and there is no social reality in his work, which shows the perfection and uniqueness of art.
In "Harukami", Sasuke's blinding of his own eyes is obviously not in line with the social value orientation at that time, but in Tanizaki's world, only in this way can this sadomasochistic love be pushed to the extreme, and sasuke's memory of the beauty of Haruka can also show that this relationship is brought to the realm of aesthetic immaculate beauty.