《胎记》为美国十九世纪伟大作家纳撒尼尔·霍桑的著名短篇小说之一。小说讲述为了消除妻子脸上胎记,妻子配合科学家丈夫不断试验解药,最终妻子和胎记一起“消失”的故事。根据拉康镜像理论探讨妻子死亡原因:妻子一直以丈夫为镜像来度过自己的人生,因此她完全沉浸在丈夫的镜像中未能找到自我,最终成为可怜的被阉割者。 Birthmark is one of the famous short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a great American writer in the 19th century. The novel tells the story in order to eliminate the birthmark on his wife’s face, the wife with the scientist husband constantly experimenting with antidote, eventually wife and birthmark together “disappear ” story. According to Lacan’s Mirror Theory, the cause of his wife’s death is discussed: his wife has always spent her life as a mirror of her husband, so she is completely immersed in her husband’s mirror and fails to find her ego, eventually becoming a poor castrated person.