Kopelson K
University of Iowa.
J Homosex. 1992;23(1-2):173-83. doi: 10.1300/J082v23n01_09.
One of the oddest and most erotic moments in Cleland's Fanny Hill occurs when Fanny is knocked "senseless" by a voyeuristic vision of two young men having anal intercourse. This sodomitical passage demonstrates a dominant culture's strong phobic attraction to a socially peripheral Other against which it defines itself. The passage also represents two types of transgression. On one level, it records an inversion of sex, gender, and class paradigms that structure bourgeois subjectivity. On another level, the passage also transgresses signification itself, exploding as well as inverting those paradigms, in a movement that recalls Barthes's distinction between the coded "studium" of the pornographic and the uncoded "punctum" of the erotic. This transgressive exemption from meaning might well be read, in a Barthesian sense, as true sexual enfranchisement in that, for Barthes, the liberation of sexuality requires the release of sexuality from meaning, and from transgression as meaning.
克莱兰的《芬妮·希尔》中最奇特且最具情色意味的时刻之一，是芬妮因目睹两个年轻男子肛交的窥淫景象而被“击昏”。这段鸡奸描写展现了一种主流文化对一个界定自身时所针对的社会边缘他者的强烈恐惧性吸引。这段文字还体现了两种越界行为。一方面，它记录了构成资产阶级主体性的性、性别和阶级范式的颠倒。另一方面，这段文字也逾越了意义本身，在一种让人联想到巴特对色情作品中编码的“ Studium”和情色作品中未编码的“punctum”之区分的动态中，颠覆并打破了那些范式。从巴特的意义上来说，这种对意义的越界豁免很可能被解读为真正的性解放，因为对巴特而言，性的解放要求将性从意义中解放出来，也从作为意义的越界行为中解放出来。
