在二十世紀末崛起於文壇的臺灣女作家中，張惠菁以知性之眼觀察都市人的
生活與存在樣貌，她的短篇小說集《末日早晨》以「身心小說」為標榜，探索世
紀之交的都市人之身心狀態，充滿物化、情感與溝通障礙所產生的自我疏離，也
使得小說人物各類器官滋生莫名的症狀，同時又藉由神秘經驗作為主要的敘事架
構並由此展開情節，形成《末日早晨》中的神祕敘事特徵，展現了臺灣版預兆人
的存在狀態和一種異想式的身心症狀書寫。本文將解讀《末日早晨》小說人物身
心症狀的心理問題，探討其面臨的自我疏離異境；然後聚焦於預兆人的神祕敘
事，分析其中的預言與魔術、感應與占卜／夢等神秘經驗，如何做為自我封閉或
重啟連結／重建秩序的手段，成為心靈突圍的異想能量；最後總結《末日早晨》

創造的臺灣版預兆人的神祕敘事和異想式身心症狀書寫所反映的後現代文化心理
困境及其意義。

Among the fin-de-siecle Taiwanese female writers, Chang Hui-Ching is a
significant one who observes urban life through an intellectual lens. Her collected
short stories Doomsday Morning are characterized as “psychosomatic fiction,”
delving into the psychosomatic conditions of urban people at the end of 20th century.
These conditions are results of self-alienation produced by objectifi cation, emotional
barriers, and communication difficulties, and manifest as inexplicable physical
symptoms across the characters’ body organs. The narrative unfolds via various sorts
of mysterious experience interwoven with these psychosomatic conditions, which
not only imparts Doomsday Morning with a distinctive aura of mystery, but also
presents a fantasy-like psychosomatic writing dealing with the existential conditions
of prophet-like characters with Taiwanese characteristics.
This article analyzes the psychological problems behind the characters’
psychosomatic symptoms and the various forms of self-alienations from which
they suffer. It focuses on the mysterious narrative of the prophet-like characters,

and argues that prophecy, magic, sensing, divination, and dreams serve as the
means by which the selves either seclude themselves from the outside world or
re-generate their connections with the others and rebuild the orders of their own
worlds. Thus understood, they function as the fantasy energy by which the characters
can break through their conditions of self-alienation. The concluding part of this
article summarizes the novelty of Chang’s mysterious narrative of the prophetlike
characters, and argues that her fantasy-like psychosomatic writing reflects the
psychological predicaments produced by postmodern culture.