김승옥 소설의 나르시시즘 연구

Abstract

The works of Kim Seung-ok have been determined by the term of "Self-controled world" and "the 1960's style". This terms are up to some agreement among researchers of Kim Seung-ok's novels and they are key words that they can approach to the his works. It can be said Kim's "self-controled world" reveals the narcissism which specialize his ages and the works. The narcissism found in his works shows his self consciousness to rule the empirical world which he judged as corrupt. His works implied that he judged the empirical world as corrupt and would reconstruct it to the ideal world by his own reason and subjectivity. We could name his trial as narcissism. Because primary narcissicm is self-intoxication but ultimate end of narcissism is to find the truth which the subject and profound ego are isolated from each other. First the Kims' narcissism is the isolation between the real subject and the fundamental ego. Second it is the trial which get over the isolations and the limits in his own reason and subjectivity. The narcissism of Kim reveals the narrative technics and experiment. The frame narrative, retrospect narrative and experimental narrative could be called arbitrary thechnics. The problem is to confront the frustration the trials that rule and reconstruct the corrupt world. As like Narcissus, Kim's characters get miscarried or frustrated in his scheme. The expectation which they could make ideal world is spoiled and their narcissism distressed. This limit of his narcissism could regard as limitation of the 1960's writers and has close relation to Kim's limit. The changes found in his late works can be the evidences which reveals his limit of self-enclosed world. The ideal and self controlled world can be ego-centric and self0 enclosed world.