주체-타자론의 극복과 공동체의 가능성 :「안빙몽유록」과 「서재야회록」에 나타난 은거 공간과 환상계를 중심으로

Abstract

This article analyses the meaning of the hermitic space and the fantastic space appearing in Anbing Mongyurok and Seojaeyahoerok. The main characters of Anbing Mongyurok and Seojaeyahoerok create their own personal spaces in order to remove their sense of defeated which has been caused by the “dominated or excluded” order of the established society. Secluding themselves in personal spaces is an easy way to heal their hearts. As the personal spaces are completely independent from the established society, the Subjects could make up a small self-centered world. By recovering the power of Subjects in personal spaces, the problem of healing looks like being solved. However, as the fantastic space is appearing and overlapped in the personal space, the personal space is no longer “personal.” Thorough the existence of fantastic space, it turns out that there always has been Others in the personal space where the Subjects are supposed to control everything. The objects that are arranged and controlled by the Subjects in the personal space become the spirits with personality in the fantastic space. They even reveal that there is no difference between the controlling behaviour of Subjects in hermitic space and the controlling order of the established society. Therefore, living in seclusion and the idea of ‘self-centered world’ turn out to be unethical. Therefore, another alternative have to be suggested; the formation of relationship in the fantastic space can be the alternative. In the fantastic space, the distinction between the Subject and the Others is blurred. Thus, the original relationship, prior to the dichotomy of the Subject versus the others, can be made. In fact, ‘I’ create every event ‘with’ the circumstances including the Others. In a sense that everything is involved in each other, the original relationship is not the Subject versus the others but the community.