최인호 소설의 가족주의 연구

Abstract

This study identifies the aspect and characteristics of familism in Inho Choi’s novel. The motif of “the abandoned child”, which characterize Inho Choi’s novel, occurs due to absence of father. With his father’s death when he was 10, his growth period is filled with gloom. This depression even develops into a panic called “agoraphobia”, which is at the root of the psychology in the middle of shock of the father’s death. For a child who had a special affectionate relationship with his father, the sudden death of his father must have been tough to get through it and unbearable, which has led to a psychological disorder that the father is dead but can not let him go. Freud described this disorder as melancholy in “Mourning and melancholia”and linked it to depression. It was torture and fear experienced when he was military that led him to the escape from these panic symptoms. However, such a shocking experience has resulted in stabilizing the subject that have wandered uneasily in the symbolic world due to severe panic symptoms. Those who blindly follow the orders of state by violence of state naturally begin to internalize the ideology of the state. Family lies at the center of its ruling ideology. Traditionally, Korean society was a ‘Confucian society’centered on family, and even now, family is at the center of Korean society with absolute power. Family ethics, which had been bound by Neo-Confucian values, gradually abandoned its Neo-Confucian values in the late Joseon period and became a personal means of understanding of the establishment of status and family politics, separated with politics and public rules. This personal character remains the same even under Japanese imperialism and the military regime after liberation. As a result, Korean society gradually acerated the development of capitalism due to Park Chung-hee’s five-year economic development policy, but the two systems overlapped as the traditional culture of seeking the glory of the extended family and clan still existed. As Choi In-ho's novel gradually adapts to the reality of two-generation familization, but has achieved some economic stability, one can find a perception that develops into a desire for traditional families or civil punishment to protecting them. However, it was very precarious because it was forced to fear state power and extreme poverty experiences. Such a risk is triggered by a marital crisis in a two-generation familized society, such as the extramarital affair of a spouse, which is terrifying enough because the subject has the most fundamental nature to bring about stable family discourse and division of the entire family system. Inho Choi’s novel is characterized by the search for romantic love is regarded as one of the ways to overcome this crisis.