김승옥의 「야행夜行」 다시 읽기

Abstract

In most of Kim Seung-ok’s novels, the censorship of his own world, which the author wanted to pursue, is represented as a character in the text, expressing the process. In the case of Night Journey dealt with in this paper, it shows how diffi cult it is in a society and its members dressed up as “inconvenient customs” and “expressionless faces” to pursue and realize the value of invisible “freedom and equality” experienced through 4.19. In Kim Seung-ok’s novel world, the loss or crisis of ethics stems from the crisis of the subject only when he gives up whatever he seeks by acquiring negative values or desires for the object he wants to deny in the face of social confusion and survival threats. In order to reveal this, the artist applies a narrative method that extracts the hidden behinds of the self and others using cognitive verbs or the repeated confi rmation process of the subject through questionable speech. It can be seen that the expression of negatives was a form of technique that revealed the suppression mechanism of the unconscious that was repeatedly reproduced. In addition, through the development process of confrontation, the confrontation between the existence and the absence of oppression of existence, and the confrontation of spaces reveal the problems of the world surrounding Hyunjoo while expressing and aiming for metonymies and metaphors. Through such a tracking process, it is confirmed that the reason Hyunjoo wants to confi rm the fact is that the temptation from unfamiliar men is only sexual recklessness is because of her persistence. Th e space in which existence stand disappears in this chain of images. In the end, it was revealed that making Hyun-joo wander around the night street is a process that confi rms that the self’s lack of clear world perception, not the ‘broad day scar’, husband, or other. In the process of this Night Journey, the self experiences the absence of a pure self lost. And by being subordinated to the selfish self, it recognizes the essence of the ‘self-world’ that the author wanted to pursue. She dreams of de-territorialization from the ambiguous boundary where the beginning and the end are unknown, but.