Segal H
Int J Psychoanal. 1994 Jun;75 ( Pt 3):611-8.
This paper examines Salman Rushdie's tale 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories', written for his younger son while Rushdie was in hiding from the fatwa. It is a fairy tale about the boy Haroun, who travels to the moon to find a cure for his father's loss of capacity to tell stories. There he discovers that the Ocean of Stories-source of all stories--is polluted. The author sees this tale as a parable of creativity, which can be used on many levels. On one level, it describes the artist's struggle against forms of political oppression, which aims at destroying all art, speech and thought. On another level, it could be seen as an internal conflict between the creative forces derived from the life instinct and those which are destructive and self-destructive deriving from the death instinct. Rushdie describes ways of dealing with this conflict and different outcomes depending on the way the conflict is faced.
本文探讨了萨尔曼·拉什迪为躲避追杀令期间的小儿子创作的故事《哈伦与故事海》。这是一个关于男孩哈伦的童话，他前往月球寻找治愈父亲失去讲故事能力的方法。在那里，他发现所有故事的源头——故事海——被污染了。作者将这个故事视为一则关于创造力的寓言，它可以在多个层面上解读。一方面，它描述了艺术家与旨在摧毁所有艺术、言论和思想的政治压迫形式的斗争。另一方面，它可以被看作是源于生命本能的创造力与源于死亡本能的具有破坏性和自我毁灭性的力量之间的内在冲突。拉什迪描述了应对这种冲突的方式以及根据面对冲突的方式所产生的不同结果。
