法國思想家朱莉婭·克里斯蒂瓦經常把憂郁這一概念放入文學藝術創作與審美中進行考察。自戀型憂郁在她看來是主客體模糊的"臨界狀態",這種狀態中的自我邊界游移,自我的否定機制活躍,不斷對自身展開質疑、否定與重構。憂郁激發主體從迥異角度反觀自身與看待外界事物,促進其藝術創新能力。文藝創作中,作者通常抗拒象征語言的驅力與情緒獲得暫時命名,通過升華被感知為療愈性愉悅。本文總結克里斯蒂瓦理論中憂郁的核心涵義,分析內在于自戀型憂郁的否定機制,并闡釋克氏提倡的升華機制如何在具有憂郁特質的美學創作與接受中發生作用。

The French thinker Julia Kristeva often explores the concept of melancholia in artistic creation and aesthetics. Melancholia with narcissistic traits is a borderline state blurring subject-object dichotomy. In this psychological state, the boundary of the ego remains unstable, the negativity within the self is activated, and the ego constantly questions, negates, and reconstructs itself. Melancholia stimulates the subject to engage in introspection and regard external environment from a different perspective, thereby promoting artistic creativity. During artistic production, the subject’s drive and affect, which ordinarily resists symbolic language, can be temporarily named and perceived as therapeutic pleasure through sublimation. This essay surveys Kristevan melancholia’s core characteristics, analyzes negativity as an inherent mechanism in narcissistic melancholia,and explicates the functioning of sublimation in aesthetic creation and reception with a bent for melancholia.