Tension between the Libidinal and the Political in The Young Generation (1965)
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China in the 1960s was in a period of socialist construction, great production, and highly collectivism. As a result, Chinese films were imbued with political intention and in line with the political atmosphere at that time. One of these films is The Young Generation, telling the story of an urban youth Lin Yusheng who is unwilling to go to remote areas for geological prospecting, but finally corrected by his families and friends. With the theory of Ideological State Apparatuses by Althusser, this paper delves into the question that how socialist revolutionary ideology functions in small families, and how does it blur the boundary between private and public spaces? Is personal desire repressed by revolution, or sublimed by political discourse? To answer these questions, this paper engages with two pairs of family relations in The Young Generation: parent-child relationship and marriages in revolution. It is found that family education, individual romance, and family labor are closely related to politics and national interests. While the libidinal affections are sublimated by the mighty political causes of reconstruction and reproduction in the process of parental education, they are repressed in the romantic relationship with their beloved. However, although these two distinct approaches are employed in the same film, they yield the same effect, that is to put the individuals into a broader national discourse that can bring them a sense of belonging to the state, improve national productivity, and even overcome physical injuries.
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China in the 1960s was in a period of socialist construction, great production, and highly collectivism. As a result, Chinese films were imbued with political intention and in line with the political atmosphere at that time. One of these films is The Young Generation, telling the story of an urban youth Lin Yusheng who is unwilling to go to remote areas for geological prospecting, but finally corrected by his families and friends. With the theory of Ideological State Apparatuses by Althusser, this paper delves into the question that how socialist revolutionary ideology functions in small families, and how does it blur the boundary between private and public spaces? Is personal desire repressed by revolution, or sublimed by political discourse? To answer these questions, this paper engages with two pairs of family relations in The Young Generation: parent-child relationship and marriages in revolution. It is found that family education, individual romance, and family labor are closely related to politics and national interests. While the libidinal affections are sublimated by the mighty political causes of reconstruction and reproduction in the process of parental education, they are repressed in the romantic relationship with their beloved. However, although these two distinct approaches are employed in the same film, they yield the same effect, that is to put the individuals into a broader national discourse that can bring them a sense of belonging to the state, improve national productivity, and even overcome physical injuries.
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