불연속적 ‘빈 공간’으로서의 ‘귀/녀’ – 전기 <최치원>에 나타난 여성 인물의 정체성론

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss identity of female characters appeared in <Choi Chi-Won>. The existing debates assumed Pallang and Gurang as objects in which resistance or desire of the deprived intellectual is expressed or as the subjects that understand the author himself. However, it fails in showing completely who and what they are. They are 'things' both existential and non-existential in the narrative world. Though having a shape of a woman, they are 'things' holding a layer and extension different from those of 'woman' of 'man and woman' used to refer to a bachelor(Doryeong) Lee and Chunhyang. This paper asks about such an issue, in other words, what is 'Ghost-woman', a main character of <Choi Chi-Won>. In order to explore the identity of the 'Ghost-woman' in <Choi Chi-Won>, this paper discussed stylistic characteristics of Chuanqi傳奇(novel) in the early period, status and psychology of male writers who needed a Chuanqi傳奇’s style, questions about the world they had and discovery of the Ghost-woman character as the cultural severed space in order. As a result, Pallang and Gurang of <Choi Chi-Won> are asexual borderline and the third performative personality created by the male author while making use of the 'Chuanqi傳奇' of a new style. Ultimately, they are things 'discovered' by the author as the literary ego asking a question about the world. Taoist Zhiguai志怪 narrative enjoyed before biographies had an effect on the origin of the Ghost-woman character. Enjoyment method of the new-styled biographies rising in the Táng Dynasty, and status and psychology of biography writers were involved in the process selecting a hero and a female character and depicting the 'Ghost-woman' as an 'empty bowl' asking a question about the world. This discussion referred to a concept of self-object by Heinz Kohut and the gender theory by Judith Butler.