Women after Love and Family without Love: Medium Space in the Context of Capital

The female roles and family space in Jelinek's writing focus on the situation of female individuals in several binary relations, such as society-family, citycountryside, capital-love, family relationship-individual development: centering on the text of Women as Lovers, this paper analyzes and explains the medium degree of capital domain and spiritual domain: Family space and its basis of existence, the main functions and the reasons for its variation. It identifies “human,” “desire” and “emotion” as the main factors in observing the domestic space, which actually becomes an economic space controlled by capital: human being(as a labor force), desire(lower emotional needs dominated by physiology and animalism, which are represented by sex and violence in the family), and emotion(love as a higher emotional level that reflects human nature) as the three levels of relationship patterns between family members are all arranged by the logic of capital. Even human beings, love and desire further forms the link of “equivalent” exchange between themselves, which also fundamentally establishes the hegemony of capital. Not only the female master of the family, but also the male master of the female master is a slave of capital. Chasing Love is the most important motive of women's individual behavior, and it also indicates the possibility of a dynamic route of Qiao-Yi: the starting point of love-chasing is the original family of women, and its ending point is the family space built with men. Family space is an important node(or end point) of women's Qiao-Yi-Route, with a “moderate” nature between individual space and socio-economic space, connecting individual women with external social space, linking individual “biological instincts” with “social humanity,” containing the role of a mediator in the field of power and value initiation.