我曾经开玩笑说,我们已经与母亲一起生活了这样的时间。这种情况的问题并不是您没有做自己想做的事情 - 有时您做了 - - 而是为了安抚或抵抗统治的神灵而努力使您精疲力尽,以至于阻止您真正玩得开心。直到今天,很开心,只是享受着自己,这是以坚信我犯下未被发现的犯罪的代价。
(I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The problem with such a state of affairs was not that you did not get to do what you wanted---sometimes you did---but the effort to appease or resist the reigning deities left you so exhausted that it prevented you from ever really having fun. To this day having fun, just plain enjoying myself, comes at the cost of a conviction that I have committed an undetected crime.)
阿扎尔·纳菲西(Azar Nafisi)在“我一直保持沉默的事情”中反思了在权威人物身上的复杂性,借鉴了她与母亲的经历。她幽默地表明,她的成长经历使她为充满挑战的时代做好了准备,但不断构成与这些期望的斗争使她陷入了困境。欲望和义务的相互作用给真正的享受留下了很少的空间。
纳菲西(Nafisi)在与乐趣的关系中揭示了一个深厚的紧张关系,感到内gui,仿佛享受自己是一个隐藏的犯罪。这种根本的焦虑说明了对合规性和对自治需求的渴望如何冲突,从而导致悖论,在这种悖论中,不法行为的感觉掩盖了愉悦感。