최승호 시에 나타나는 분변성에 대한 저급유물론적 접근ㅡ1980년대 최승호 시를 중심으로

Abstract

Choi Seung-ho’s poem in the 1980s is critically speaking about a civilization that suppresses life. It depicts the alienation of the forms of life trapped in the repressive structure of a civilized society, and describes it through excrement, filth, corpse, abjected fetus, and chunks of meat. This paper points out that the discussion of Choi Seung-ho’s poems limited to a critical point of view of civilization is a one-sided view of human-centered and subject-centered ones, and thus attempts to read Choi Seung-ho’s poems using Georges Bataille‘s Base Materialism and Kristeva’s Abject. Base Materialism emphasizes the low-level and material aspects of something, and the most declining example of such de-classification is Abject. Choi Seung-ho stresses human fecality in his poems and identifies humans as excrement and filth. This perspective deconstructs the elevated aspect of humans. In addition, it emphasizes the indiscernibility between life/death, human/excrement, and living/corpse, and breaks away from human centrality, subject centrality and epistemological dichotomy. In addition, Choi Seung-ho’s poems deal with various aspects of death and decomposition, revealing that civilization inactivates humans biologically and socially, putting them in a state of death in life. However, despite the problem of inactivation of life and death, base materialistic beings such as impersonality and chunks of meat allow us to experience the other in the commonality of pain and death. Choi Seung-ho’s emphasis on abject-fecality disrupts the boundary of the cognitive structure that isolates and conceals Abject through the discomfort of cognition/classification impossibility inherent in Abject. And it is to explore the possibility of transition to another being.