'아비 부정', 혹은 1960년대 미적 주체의 모험 - 김승옥과 이제하의 텍스트에 나타난 주체 형성과 권력의 문제를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This article is to examine the formation of 60’s aesthetic subject in Kim Seong－Ok’s and Lee Jae－ha’s text. The final aim of this article is to reconsider the aesthetic modernity in finding out the crack point of 4․19 generation’s project, so called “The denial of Father”. They wanted to make a modern subject and its own subjectivity through the radical extinction of 50’s literature. The aesthetic subject means a modern individual who does not depend on his community and its rules, but who tries to make own his value and position with voluntary. The texts of Kim Seong－Ok were the center of the project. The term, <self－world>, was originated from his text. It has been identified with the accomplishment of modern subjectivity in the history of Korean modern literature. But it has been overvalued. As a matter of fact, the formation of the subjectivity was accomplished by means of symbolic murder of Mother and Sister. Exactly say, the <self－world> was consist of the guiltiness of the subject who enters into the world of Father at the cost of them. The discourse of 4․19 generation was serious trial to make a modern subject, but they had a blind belief in individualized modern subject. As Michael Foucault pointed out, Modernity has the paradoxical tendency which develops not only individualization but also totalized power which controls the individuals. 1960’s of Korean society has experienced the paradox of Modernity though 4․19 and 5․16. On the contrary, Lee Jae－ha’s texts showed the meaningful resistance to the tendency of the totalization. In his text, we can find the characters violently denying the Father. They deny being adult and entering into the world of Father. ‘The artist’ heros are the example of that case. Lee Jae－ha’s texts are a kind of reflexive thought about Korean aesthetic Modernity in terms of exposing the paradox of Modernity.