幽情秘恋

https://theghostinmymachine.com/2017/05/31/creepy-wikipedia-christine-and-lea-papin-the-murderous-maids-of-france/ http://www.crimemagazine.com/papin-sisters-frances-crime-century 彻头彻尾的虐女惨剧，十岁就被父亲强奸然后送到孤儿院做修女的emilia，乱伦时说出总好过做妓女的cristine，被母亲剥削和情感控制的lea。拉康评价了镜像理论，认为她们的冷漠是相对的，但不止如此，她们实际上也都同样在父权夹缝里流窜，女雇主患有抑郁并因家政问题和女佣们频繁产生冲突，而男雇主则声称在七年里没有和她们说过一句话，显然她们只是用不同的形式围绕家务活打转，女雇主嘲笑女佣的智识，女佣将母女像处理兔肉一样切割，她们对彼此使用虚幻的单向压迫，来获得心理上自尊的满足，在Cristine实施暴行时第一时间让Lea挖掉她们的眼睛，也象征着清除映射对自己罪行的逃避，最后Cristine在审判时表示还出于对男雇主的同情关上了血腥现场的大门，这更说明了她们认为男性是独立于女性痛苦，另一个层面权力的角色，而在当时舆论只聚焦于女性津津乐道，扼腕阶级哭丧的言论也仿佛是置身事外地在社会精心圈好的一块灰暗地里观赏斗兽，真正恐怖的不是作案手法的凶残，而是什么让她们没有别的选择，造成了只能互虐的封闭空间，那个年代的女性处境有时就像一种cult。 字数超了只能转长评，顺便摘一下评论家们： Sartre “I've seen the photos of these two pretty girls, these servants who killed and battered their mistresses. I've seen the photosbefore and after. ‘Before’, their faces hovered like two docile flowers above their lace collars. They radiated clean living and appetizing honesty. A discreet curling iron had crimped their hair in a similar manner. And, even more reassuring than their waved hair, their collars and their air of being on a visit to the photographer, was their resemblance as sisters, the self-righteous resemblance that immediately brought blood ties and the natural roots of the family group to the fore. ‘After’, their faces glowed like a blaze. They had the bare necks of the future beheaded. Wrinkles everywhere, horrible wrinkles of fear and hatred, folds, holes in the flesh as if a clawed beast had roamed round and round on their faces. And those eyes, those same big, dark and bottomless eyes... And yet, they no longer looked alike. Each, in her own way, bore the memory of their common crime...” --"Le Mur" bySartre[edit] Simone de Beauvoir “In its broad outline, the tragedy of the Papin sisters was immediately clear to us. In Rouen, as in Le Mans, and perhaps even among the mothers of my pupils, there were no doubt women who deducted the cost of a broken plate from their maid's wages, who put on white gloves to find forgotten specks of dust on the furniture: in our eyes, they deserved death a hundred times over. With their wavy hair and their white collars, how sensible Christine and Léa Papin seem in the old photo that some papers published! How had they become those haggard furies offered up to public condemnation in the photos taken after the drama? One must accuse their childhood orphanage, their serfdom, the whole hideous system set up by decent people for the production of madmen, assassins and monsters. The horror of this all-consuming machine could only be rightfully denounced by an exemplary act of horror: the two sisters had made themselves the instruments and martyrs of a sombre form of justice... For two bourgeois women hacked to pieces, a bloody atonement was required. The killer wasn't judged. He acted as a scapegoat...”Simone de Beauvoirin "La Force de l'âge", 1960 Jean Genet “I must specify one thing: this is not a petition for the case of servants. I suppose that there is a union for household employees - that is none of our concern. During the first production of this play, a theatre critic made the remark that real maids don't speak like the ones in my play. What does he know? I claim the contrary, for if I were a maid, I'd speak like they do. Some evenings. For maids only speak like this on some evenings: you have to catch them unawares, either in their loneliness or in that experienced by everyone on earth...” --Taken from "Comment jouer les bonnes" byJean Genet"Madame likes us like she likes her armchairs. And maybe not that much! Like the pink china of her lavatory. Like her bidet. And we are not allowed to love each other... Madame can call me Mademoiselle Solange. Precisely. It's because of what I've done...” --"Les Bonnes" Louis Le Guillant “As a psychiatrist says: ‘I'm asked to cure human beings but, three-quarters of the time, I'm totally ineffective. I would need to cure their lives too.’ It was all but impossible to ‘cure the lives’ of the Papin sisters...” --Louis Le Guillantin "L'affaire des soeurs Papin" Paul Éluard and Benjamin Peret “The Papin sisters were raised in a convent at Le Mans. Then their mother placed them in a 'bourgeois' home in the town. For six years, in total submission, they put up with remarks, demands and insults. Fear, exhaustion and humiliation slowly nourished the hatred within them, this sweet liquor that secretly consoles with its promise of blending violence with physical force sooner or later. When the day came, Léa and Christine Papin paid evil back in its own coin, a coin struck with a red-hot iron. They literally massacred their employers, tearing out their eyes and smashing their skulls. Then they went to bed. The lightning had struck, the wood had burned and the sun had gone out for good...”Le Surréalisme au service de la révolutionno. 5" byPaul ÉluardandBenjamin Péret Jacques Lacan “Christine and Léa were genuine Siamese souls. Between them, the two sisters couldn't even find the distance needed to wound each other...“Christine must have gone through such torture before the desperate experience of crime tore her from her other self and allowed her, after the first hallucinatory fit in which she thought she saw her sister dead, to cry the words of blatant passion: ‘Yes, say yes!’”Taken from "Motives of Paranoiac Crime: The Crime of the Papin Sisters"--Jacques Lacan https://www.artandpopularculture.com/French_intellectuals_on_the_Papin_sisters