情慾與解脫─以超越功能詮釋摩登伽女文本暨平等實踐=Sexual Desire and Liberation––An Interpretation of the Texts of Matangi's Daughter and the Equanimity Practice Characteristic of Transcendent Function
超越功能=transcendent function; 摩登伽女=matangi’s daughter; 情慾=sexual desire; 自我認同=self-identification; 解脫=liberation; 平等實踐=equanimity practice
摘要
本論文以「阿難被摩登伽女咒術所攝事件」作為探討主題，試圖理解出於《楞嚴經》等文本中關鍵卻未詳述之部分：（1）摩登伽女情慾轉向的心理機制（2）種姓階序的排他特徵（3）證阿羅漢果的語言揭露。以榮格（Carl Gustav Jung, 1975-1961）提出之超越功能來選擇與此相關之哲學、語言學理論，透過概念釐清與界說，嘗試對摩登伽女身為一介賤民，如何會在遭遇阿難時產生重大轉折，然後在聽取佛陀給予的開導後隨即開悟給予詮釋說明。關乎此有三大環節：（1）分析心理學的超越功能。這是榮格基於人格轉化的操作性定義，作用為整合對立狀態，治療目標的訴求是達到人格的整體。（2）哲學的超越性。根植於理性，二元對立是長久以來西方哲學的形上學傳統，認為情感對認識自我與世界的真相有所干擾而加以排除。此種壓抑有可能成為精神分析與分析心理學需要治療的各種身心症。（3）語言轉向的超越。二元劃分是語言結構的基石，關係到二元對立所從出的男女、強弱、剛柔、陰陽。若要獲致平等，便須展開自我、超我以及他者的可能對話。摩登伽女的轉化首先要面對自我認同的問題，在穿越各種認同溢出之歧義後，最後揭示解脫所蘊藏的平等實踐要義。
This paper takes "Ānanda 's incident in which Matangi’s Daughter cast a spell on him as the topic of discussion, trying to understand the key but unexplained parts of the Shurangama Sutra and other texts: (1) the psychological mechanism of the Matangi’s Daughter's transformation, (2) The hereditary division as the characteristics of the caste system, and (3) The language disclosure of achieving Arhatship. According to the transcendent function proposed by C.G. Jung, I cited related philosophy and linguistic theories and did some critical conceptual clarification and definition for interpreting the major turning point of Matangi’s Daughter. She, as a pariah, encountered Ānanda. How could it be possible that after listening to the teachings of Buddha, she reached enlightenment at such short notice. There are three major aspects related to this: (1) the transcendent function of analytical psychology which was termed by Jung is defined as mediation between opposites, and the transformation of personality into a whole that claims to be the goal of any psychotherapy, (2) the transcendence in philosophy. The traditional criteria in the history of Western philosophy for a metaphysical distinction is dualism which is rooted in rationality regards the emotion as disturbances when apprehending truths about ourselves and the world. To repress the emotion may result in mind-body problem which psychoanalysis and analytical psychology need to address, and (3) the transcendence in linguistic turn. The linguistic structure is a bipartite system of differences which involves the transition from one condition to another including men and women, strength and weakness, rigidity and softness, even yin and yang which are arising from the dualism. It is necessary to initiate dialogues between the ego, the superego, and the other. To transform, Matangi’s Daughter first had to address the issues of self-identification, after traversing all the extra ambiguities of the identification, the equanimity practice to be found behind the essence of the liberation of the Matangi’s Daughter can be revealed.
