키츠의 이사벨라에 나타난 라캉 정신분석학의 윤리: 이상화, 도착, 승화를 중심으로
Lacan’s Ethics of Psychoanalysis in Keats’s Isabella: Idealization, Perversion, and Sublimation
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This paper aims to reinterpret John Keats’s Isabella, in light of Lacan’s ethics of psychoanalysis. The first part of Isabella shows a highly romanticized love relationship between Lorenzo and Isabella, which resembles “courtly love,” Lacan’s example of idealization. Immersed in the world of their idealized love, Lorenzo and Isabella appear to be ignorant of the outer world, where the logic of capitalism dominates social relations, and the pursuit of profit subsumes everything under its power. On the other hand, Isabella’s two brothers embody fetishism and the perversive desire for materialistic interests, even regarding their own sister, whom they view as a commodity with an exchange value. As Lorenzo becomes an obstacle to the two brothers’ scheme of acquiring a large dowry by marrying their sister off, they secretly kill Lorenzo and bury him in the woods. Yet, Lorenzo’s return, in the form of a shadow, functions as an opportunity for Isabella to encounter “the real” and realize her ignorant past bordering on infancy. Then, Isabella begins to form a sublimational relationship with “the real” through her subsequent acts of cutting Lorenzo’s head off from his dead body and growing a basil pot that contains her lover’s head in it. Isabella’s retreat from worldly affairs and self-imposed isolation may appear to be a merely passive way of resisting her brothers’ control over her existence; however, she ultimately succeeds in making cracks in the symbolic order through her quiet revolt, which exemplifies Keats’s state of “negative capability” and resembles Lacanian sublimation.
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This paper aims to reinterpret John Keats’s Isabella, in light of Lacan’s ethics of psychoanalysis. The first part of Isabella shows a highly romanticized love relationship between Lorenzo and Isabella, which resembles “courtly love,” Lacan’s example of idealization. Immersed in the world of their idealized love, Lorenzo and Isabella appear to be ignorant of the outer world, where the logic of capitalism dominates social relations, and the pursuit of profit subsumes everything under its power. On the other hand, Isabella’s two brothers embody fetishism and the perversive desire for materialistic interests, even regarding their own sister, whom they view as a commodity with an exchange value. As Lorenzo becomes an obstacle to the two brothers’ scheme of acquiring a large dowry by marrying their sister off, they secretly kill Lorenzo and bury him in the woods. Yet, Lorenzo’s return, in the form of a shadow, functions as an opportunity for Isabella to encounter “the real” and realize her ignorant past bordering on infancy. Then, Isabella begins to form a sublimational relationship with “the real” through her subsequent acts of cutting Lorenzo’s head off from his dead body and growing a basil pot that contains her lover’s head in it. Isabella’s retreat from worldly affairs and self-imposed isolation may appear to be a merely passive way of resisting her brothers’ control over her existence; however, she ultimately succeeds in making cracks in the symbolic order through her quiet revolt, which exemplifies Keats’s state of “negative capability” and resembles Lacanian sublimation.
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