유훈(遺訓)의 섭정체 -최인훈 연작 「총독의 소리」를 매개로-

Abstract

This article analyzes Ruling with the dying instructions of imperial Japan and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, using the political imagination contained in Choi In-hun’s Novel Voice of the Viceroy as a medium. In the process, the concept of ‘regency’, which is different from dictatorship or oligarchy, is derived and constructed. The issue of access distance to the emperor, that is, the passage through which the hand can reach the doorknob of the emperor, legitimacy, and authority, and the issue of the secret struggle over the monopoly of the waiting room (vorraum) were first dealt with(Chapter I). Next, the perspective of ‘Emperor Kim Il-sung’ presented by Choi In-hun’s viceroy is analyzed in the context of the crisis of the death of the highest authority. Furthermore, such a point of view of the viceroy will be analyzed along with context of the ‘politics of state funeral’ as an emergency measure to overcome the suspension of Weberian charisma(Chapter II). And it was analyzed that the inosculation between the two heads of state presented there, that is, the metaphysical head and the physical head, is a way to keep charismatic authority in a state of mystery and the effect of immunity(Chapter III). This is in line with the situation right after the defeat of Japan, the empire imitated by ‘Emperor Kim Il-sung.’ In this context, the postwar collaboration between MacArthur and Hirohito was analyzed, focusing on the words of Emperor Hirohito, that is, ‘the king reigns but does not rule’(Chapter IV). Lastly, the fundamental violence of such a collaboration was analyzed again in the process of integrating the body of ‘Emperor Kim Il-sung’, who was preserved as an immortal body with the state(Chapter V).