本篇論文旨在以巴代伊於《情色論》中闡述的情色觀，來詮釋他的短篇小說《眼睛的故事》。在巴代伊眼中，情色是人「有意地踰越存在界限，而造成的不平衡」。這意味著故意迷失自我、故意不知輕重、與故意失去現實感。這些種種的故意失序，帶來失去生命的危險，但對巴代伊而言，卻導向一種他稱為「神聖接續」的境界。在這種境界中，人的存在融入了無始無垠的宇宙，有如水存在於水中。他終身所有的關懷與追求，都與之有關。

在第一章，我試圖用巴代伊「異質學」的概念，解釋《眼睛的故事》看似毫無章法的敘事手法，並探討《眼睛的故事》的情節如何演示自我意識、合宜舉止、現實感的全盤消融。在第二章，我根據《情色論》中，『情色與宗教系出同源』的說法，介紹巴代伊思想中「神聖接續」令人費解的雙重面相：崇高純潔，和汙穢下流。兩種層面都以各自的方式，通往巴代伊追求的「神聖接續」。我分別列舉宗教文獻中的記載和《眼睛的故事》情節，說明兩種層面的相似性。在第三章，我說明自我界限的消除，反而凸顯內在本有的神聖接續。

This thesis intends to interpret Bataille’s novella Story of the Eye with his notion of eroticism: “the disequilibrium in which a being consciously calls his own existence in question” (Eroticism 31). This questioning involves a general sense of loss, including the loss of the sense of ego, the sense of propriety, and that of reality. These losses endanger a being’s existence, but they also promise a sacred state which Bataille terms as la continuité de l'être (“continuity of being”). In this continuity a being is emerged in “the universal flow of all that is” like water in water.

This thesis is divided into three chapters. In Chapter One, I explain how Story of the Eye manifests the loosening of the sense of ego, propriety, and reality, with Bataille’s notion of heterology. In Chapter Two, I introduce the dualistic facets of la continuité de l'être — the elevated and the defiled. Both facets bring forward sacred continuity. I will support Bataille’s assertion that “religious and erotic passions are of one origin” by enumerating evidences from religious documents and scenes of Story of the Eye. In Chapter Three, I explain the nullification of ego as the way toward la continuité de l’être which is immanent for a being.

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