초록 열기/닫기 버튼
Amy Tan creates a dramatic revelation of the suppressed half in the human psyche, interpreting the splits of the unconscious as spirits in the Yin world. Operating as a physical presentation of human unconsciousness, the spirits are the body of desire that the system once suppressed so as to promote the reasonable ideology of the society. The system, in which its rational violence is ready to devalue uncertainties, acts as an agency for the force of reason and coherency, which is central to personal autonomy. Under the very system of enlightenment, readers find Kwan－the main character－who swings back and forth between death and life, and spirits and humans. Hundred Secret Senses describes a post-structuralist zone called the other, where there is no clear distintion between spirits and humans. The spirits are the splits of the other, which seem to reside in the realm of human unconsciousness. Kwan challenges the psychological/systematic violence, discounting the notion of an autonomous sphere and reflecting upon the extended dimension of the human psyche. Her secrets create what contemporary theorists would call a deconstructive aspect of human unconsciousness.
