상징계에서 실재계로—『프랑켄슈타인』의 이데올로기적 주체 빅터
From the Symbolic to the Real: Victor as the Ideological Subject in Frankenstein
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The structure of Frankenstein revolves around the event of creation, blurring the definite boundaries between a human and a monster. As embodied in the monster that Victor created, a piece of the Real—a stain of traumatic irrationality and ontologically ruptured humanity—will be discussed in conjunction with Victor as an epistemological and ideological subject. Victor becomes an organization of patriarchal scientists armed with scientific knowhow which has amazing abilities but uses them irresponsibly. For his part,Victor insists that digging around among corpses does not bother him, that he is particularly invulnerable to supernatural horrors. It seems that Victor is the spontaneous agent legally responsible for his scientific project. He freely assumes and identifies with the task of creation. He slaves away in solitude and wards off human connection. He is blind and unaware of the full import of what is happening. This is the realist’s imbecility or a naive empiricism. When he perceives the monstrosity that he has created, the sight horrifies him. Such a monstrosity marks the limits of the elitist ideology of the scientific world and epitomizes the real desire of the ideological subject. The prevalence of paradox such as Victor’s hatred of the monster and the destruction of everyone near to him both exposes the way ideology operates in modern societies and embodies the presence of the Real which belies the universalization of hegemonic ideas of scientific world. That’s why my study focuses on the problems of ideology and the Real in the novel. Key Words: Frankenstein, the Symbolic, the Real, the ideological subject,self-consciousness
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The structure of Frankenstein revolves around the event of creation, blurring the definite boundaries between a human and a monster. As embodied in the monster that Victor created, a piece of the Real—a stain of traumatic irrationality and ontologically ruptured humanity—will be discussed in conjunction with Victor as an epistemological and ideological subject. Victor becomes an organization of patriarchal scientists armed with scientific knowhow which has amazing abilities but uses them irresponsibly. For his part,Victor insists that digging around among corpses does not bother him, that he is particularly invulnerable to supernatural horrors. It seems that Victor is the spontaneous agent legally responsible for his scientific project. He freely assumes and identifies with the task of creation. He slaves away in solitude and wards off human connection. He is blind and unaware of the full import of what is happening. This is the realist’s imbecility or a naive empiricism. When he perceives the monstrosity that he has created, the sight horrifies him. Such a monstrosity marks the limits of the elitist ideology of the scientific world and epitomizes the real desire of the ideological subject. The prevalence of paradox such as Victor’s hatred of the monster and the destruction of everyone near to him both exposes the way ideology operates in modern societies and embodies the presence of the Real which belies the universalization of hegemonic ideas of scientific world. That’s why my study focuses on the problems of ideology and the Real in the novel. Key Words: Frankenstein, the Symbolic, the Real, the ideological subject,self-consciousness
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