Rowlinson Matthew
University of Western Ontario.
Vic Stud. 2010;52(4):535-59. doi: 10.2979/vic.2010.52.4.535.
Beginning with a discussion of the sources in Darwin's writing for Freud's theory of the hysterical symptom, this essay proceeds to a symptomatic reading of Darwin himself. With reference to "The Origin of Species," "The Descent of Man," and "The Expression of the Emotions," this essay shows that Darwin's theories of involuntary expressive behavior and of aesthetic preference in sexual selection are linked by their role in his understanding of racial difference and also by their reliance on the idea that learned habits can be inherited as instincts, a view often identified with Lamarck. They are thus at once theories of the foreign body and theories that appear as foreigners within the body of Darwin's work.
本文首先讨论了达尔文著作中为弗洛伊德癔症症状理论提供的来源，接着对达尔文本人进行了症候式解读。参照《物种起源》《人类的由来》和《人类和动物的表情》，本文表明，达尔文关于非自主表达行为和性选择中的审美偏好的理论，在他对种族差异的理解中所起的作用以及它们对习得习惯可作为本能遗传这一观点的依赖方面相互关联，而这一观点常与拉马克联系在一起。因此，它们既是关于异物的理论，也是在达尔文著作体系中看似异类的理论。
