『제이콥의 방』 —기억과 욕망이 굴절된 공간
Jacob's Room —The Refracted Space of Memory and Desire
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Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's third novel which marks a radical departure from her former ways of writing. However, her new ideas, method and form are not convincing and reveal a problematical relationship between her intention and her expression. Furthermore, the problematical relationship continues to the characters in the book and puzzles us with what is the novel is about. Nonetheless, a careful reading uncovers a deeper layer of the book underneath the unstable surface and exposes a paradoxical efficacy of those problematic relationships. The title Jacob's Room is in a way deceptive in that the book is neither about Jacob nor about his room, Jacob is rather "a structural element" as Pamela Caughie properly puts. The point of this book is the uncertain contextual relationship between a number of the female characters' "memory and desire" and Jacob. Here, the relationship is not simple but complex since desire itself is stimulation without satisfaction that all the female characters' "memory and desire" linger around Jacob creating intricate psychological spaces of their "moments of being". In this context, Jacob is not the object of their desires but a mediator and he becomes one and many simultaneously by their internal mediations. What is common to them is the desire to achieve meaningful orders, to impose some kind of "still moments" on random life through their memories which related to Jacob both directly and indirectly. For them, memory is a kind of spiritual energy and they need it not only for the preservation of the former experiences but also for a foundation of their future lives. In other words, Jacob is a mediated desire or a borrowed desire to grasp their "moments of being." In this way Woolf tries to experiment with the subversive nature of spatial arrangement producing "a number of different differences at one moment in time" which can transform Jacob into a spatial being of living memory in their interior gardens. This method of "embedded time in space" acquires refinement in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse afterwards. In Jacob's Room, ten or more female characters can roughly be divided into three categories; a much alienated and passive first group and a somewhat active, younger and expressive second group and the third group in between the two. Whatever their ages and the intensity of their desires, they all know that their desires are based on abstraction and the distance between the mediator and themselves will not be narrowed. Furthermore, they recognize that the way to get to Jacob and to his room is in reality to turn back to a refracted space called their own being.
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Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's third novel which marks a radical departure from her former ways of writing. However, her new ideas, method and form are not convincing and reveal a problematical relationship between her intention and her expression. Furthermore, the problematical relationship continues to the characters in the book and puzzles us with what is the novel is about. Nonetheless, a careful reading uncovers a deeper layer of the book underneath the unstable surface and exposes a paradoxical efficacy of those problematic relationships. The title Jacob's Room is in a way deceptive in that the book is neither about Jacob nor about his room, Jacob is rather "a structural element" as Pamela Caughie properly puts. The point of this book is the uncertain contextual relationship between a number of the female characters' "memory and desire" and Jacob. Here, the relationship is not simple but complex since desire itself is stimulation without satisfaction that all the female characters' "memory and desire" linger around Jacob creating intricate psychological spaces of their "moments of being". In this context, Jacob is not the object of their desires but a mediator and he becomes one and many simultaneously by their internal mediations. What is common to them is the desire to achieve meaningful orders, to impose some kind of "still moments" on random life through their memories which related to Jacob both directly and indirectly. For them, memory is a kind of spiritual energy and they need it not only for the preservation of the former experiences but also for a foundation of their future lives. In other words, Jacob is a mediated desire or a borrowed desire to grasp their "moments of being." In this way Woolf tries to experiment with the subversive nature of spatial arrangement producing "a number of different differences at one moment in time" which can transform Jacob into a spatial being of living memory in their interior gardens. This method of "embedded time in space" acquires refinement in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse afterwards. In Jacob's Room, ten or more female characters can roughly be divided into three categories; a much alienated and passive first group and a somewhat active, younger and expressive second group and the third group in between the two. Whatever their ages and the intensity of their desires, they all know that their desires are based on abstraction and the distance between the mediator and themselves will not be narrowed. Furthermore, they recognize that the way to get to Jacob and to his room is in reality to turn back to a refracted space called their own being.
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