『에코 메이커』의 카프그라 증후군: 자아와 의식의 외연을 넘기
Capgras Syndrome in The Echo Maker: Beyond the External Extension of Self and Consciousness
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Categorizing Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker as a neuro novel, this study examines how the novel delves into issues of ‘self’, ‘consciousness’, and ecosystem through its literary use of Capgras syndrome and thus consequently extends the neuro novel genre. The novel, implicating human self and consciousness as constructed ideas chosen and formed in the process of evolution, questions the idea of a static self and consciousness within the humanist tradition. The major character, Mark Schluter, diagnosed with Capgras syndrome, relies on self-fantasy to maintain his idea of his own integrity. As the novel develops, the depiction of Capgras syndrome goes beyond the personal realm and becomes a social issue. Powers uses Capgras syndrome as a signifier to raise questions of the normality of people considered to be neuro-typical.. The novel also contends that humans share basically the same neuron circuitry as ecosystem like the wild sandhill cranes. Thus, through active change and understanding of self as a part of evolution, humans can extend themselves into the ecosystem. In this way, the novel extends the existing neuro novel genre by raising the question of the external extension of human self and connecting it to ecosystem.
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Categorizing Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker as a neuro novel, this study examines how the novel delves into issues of ‘self’, ‘consciousness’, and ecosystem through its literary use of Capgras syndrome and thus consequently extends the neuro novel genre. The novel, implicating human self and consciousness as constructed ideas chosen and formed in the process of evolution, questions the idea of a static self and consciousness within the humanist tradition. The major character, Mark Schluter, diagnosed with Capgras syndrome, relies on self-fantasy to maintain his idea of his own integrity. As the novel develops, the depiction of Capgras syndrome goes beyond the personal realm and becomes a social issue. Powers uses Capgras syndrome as a signifier to raise questions of the normality of people considered to be neuro-typical.. The novel also contends that humans share basically the same neuron circuitry as ecosystem like the wild sandhill cranes. Thus, through active change and understanding of self as a part of evolution, humans can extend themselves into the ecosystem. In this way, the novel extends the existing neuro novel genre by raising the question of the external extension of human self and connecting it to ecosystem.
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