김애란 短篇小說 「침이 고인다」 硏究 －現代 資本社會의 주체와 敍事 構造를 중심으로－

Abstract

Modern society is constituted of humans' various desires and symptoms. Especially even more in the modern ‘capitalist' society which aim for indi- vidual's pursuit of profit under the ideology of freedom and equality. In this article, symptoms of subject and desire of modern capitalist society were considered mainly with Kim Aeran's major work 「Mouthwatering」. Recognizable from the title ‘Mouthwatering’, this story implies the desires of modern people and furthermore, the desires of modern capitalist society. Thus, this article was to grasp daily life, behavior patterns, and internal psychology of characters in the story that functions as components of modern capitalism and consider mechanism of modern capitalist society by analyzing symptoms and desires of modern society's capital consumption subjects. In capitalist society camouflaged as freedom, modern subjects are suf- fering from anxiety and compulsion and exploit oneself. Simultaneously, in this spectacular society empathizing appearance and consumption, the subjects experience isolation from others and oneself. Then finally, the subjects in fatigue society where exhausted and worn down physically and mentally, refuse communication with others and desire for loneliness. Despite the psychological pain, apart from questioning or denying the logics of the capital, the subjects in the modern society are living day by day in losing oneself and sinking in capitalism. Although the modern society is producing various desires and symptoms, the subjects totally eaten by capitalism ideology are functioning well day by day as the components of the capitalist society. Kim Aeran's 「Mouthwaterting」 implies figures of the modern subjects that are enjoying their symptoms and working hard in capitalism ideology not knowing the mechanism of the capital that's controlling the modern society and fundamental of capitalism ideology.