'개인'이 정립되는 한 가지 방식

Abstract

This study is intended to capture the nature of the discourse of individual who has 'one's own world' in the early novels of Kim Seung-ok's. This discourse of individual is a social and historical structure. And the discourse of individual uses various literary representations to establish modern individual subject. In this course, the method to represent the individual subject discloses that it appropriates the representations of the other. The most important point of this study is how to establish the 'one's own world'. This 'one's own world' is constructed by the binomial oppositions of individual/non-individual and art/life. And these binomial oppositions are not the reflection of the reality but the ideological structure. Secondly, this study takes notice on the form of appropriation. This means that to have 'one's own world' is to enlarge one's extension. And to enlarge one's extension, the subject should appropriate the other. At this time, the individual subject establishes himself by appropriating the representations of other who is the woman. That is to say that the individual subject is the man. Kim Seung-ok's individual subject is not a given thing to wait for explanation but a social and historical structure to wait for investigation.