사랑의 존재론: 오늘날의 사랑에 대한 비판적 소고

Abstract

This research aimed at investigating possibility of love as discontinuity in the world as well as the possibility toward new openness by thinking about love ontologically. Love has ontological status due to the point that the meaning thereof cannot be fixed as atopos. Locutionary impossibility of love is based on the fact that love is the existence itself of the loved object, that is, a process to approach other original singularity that cannot be reduced to the same self. On the other hand, non-same self characteristic of love makes love unpredictable, non-computable, and non-controllable, however today, when people pursue safe life, this character of love is regarded as the factor that should be erased as much as possible. Particularly, in capitalism society, which recalls general existence with the order of value, love is substituted with meaning instead of existence. Appearance of love goods that signify the existence of others is an example that well shows such reality. Invention of love goods can be said to be a measure to calculate, anticipate, furthermore, control and erase ambiguity that otherness of others has. Nevertheless, love reveals its figure with 'something' that cannot be completely removed. This is the reason why love insistently remains in the interaction formula of meanings as the absolute residue of reappearance. Love comes from that gap, simultaneously with sparing relationship - space in the theory of same person. This is the reason why we should continuously try even though talking about love might fail. Speech of love is not to reveal the reality of love, but can be said the performative locutionary action that composes love. Therefore, talking about love can be said in other words that it is not to signify others, recalls remaining existence after extinction of all symbols, and resist permanent conceptualization. Sensation that the language of love arouses in the world is to reveal something that could not be realized in system of meaning that exists at present, accordingly, that has existed in the world remaining in blank. This is why love has the potential to stop already defined value system of the world and adopt new order.