불임의 시대, 생명상실에 대한 징후의 서사 -이청준의 「아이 밴 남자 (姙夫)」·「무서운 토요일」·「거룩한 밤」을 중심으로

Abstract

1960’s is important that the negative effects of the contradictions of the modern capitalist system began to emerge in Korea as Korean economy began to be industrialized and fetishism became visualized. This thesis focus on the attributes of capital which was literarily shaped as fetishism, and destructive indications of loss of life that it has arose in Lee Chung Jun’s「A pregnant Man, 1966」·「A scary Saturday, 1966」·「Holy Night, 1977」, the original title: Castration Village Night」 Chapter 2 focus on the 『A pregnant man』 in which labor became the symbol of hollowness did not become a power for production, and it brought breakdown of death. ‘I’ worked as a mortician and the object of desire of ‘I’ was money which was in short, and the ‘labor’ he did to get this ‘money’ was to find someone’s death. Here established an equation that the symbol that took control of ‘I’ was ‘money’, ‘labor’, and ‘death’. In the last scene, ‘I’ felt severe stomachache. ‘I’ said it happen sometimes and a passerby joked to ‘I’ that ‘I’ might pregnant. It shows that ‘I’ as a male, was not only biologically infertility but also value infertility in the structure of capitalistic society. In capitalistic society, he could possess pain for production but in repetition of hollow state of labor, he could not propagate any profit or capital for himself so he was value infertility. In chapter 3, I study 『A scary Saturday, 1966』 to review control or exclusion of desire and impulse making a life nonessential. An relative antipode of desire is labor. Capitalism, conventionalizing everyday life, became extreme and it removed sexual impulse and induced sex frigidity. Even the explosive sexual desires of human nature were under control and management. As manifestation of inner impulse became impossible, so was a childbirth. The author tried to dismantle the violence of identity committed by the discourse of capitalism through ‘I’ who trying to regain the ‘impulse’ of inner fullness by stopping the excessive pleasure labor of the capital increase logic of capitalism triggered by drugged-up fake desires. In chapter 4, it was revealed that the idea of modern people cloned in the space where 「Holy Night」was culturalized, and confirmed that even the instinct of reproduction was under control. The new space called apartment built a common subject in the form of culture, castrated the sex of men and women and drove them to the situation of infertility that gamogenesis was impossible. The title 「Holy Night」symbolizes the birth of surplus capital that was cloned in the way of self-cloning of capital, in other words, the nigh when a fetish was bore. Lee Chung Jun revealed the subjects in the state of value infertility under capitalistic economic system and the crisis of loss of life against them. The contradictions and absurdities of capitalism, the detection and exposure of its destructive indications, can be a means of deconstructive resistance of literature by visualizing the enemy which threatens the life hidden under the pretext of economic abundance.