한문소설에 등장하는 死産된 영웅과 그 의미－통속적 이웃의 탄생－

Abstract

The hero story is the prototype of the myth. All the myth are also the success story of the half human and half god. These myths that had been the matrix of the presence of the nations by developing as the grand narrative and consoling the human’s existence, could be transformed to the totalitarianism like Nazism when the function of these myth were reduced only for concreting the collective beings. this point of view have been warned many a time by Hannah Arendt and Max Horkheimer. Then, the hero character in myth had been changed into the extraordinary one whose heroic talent was deprived. That was the time when the heroic beings had to hide themselves beside our secular world as the excess of community by transforming into ordinary neighbor. The neighbor is not the expanded subject that must be identified with it. This just means the way to the totalitarianism. The genuine neighbor that J. Lacan called ‘le chose’ evoke the fact that there must be something transcending the subject out of us. Therefore we can regulate the neighbor as the excess of the world which make the subject inconvenient or the threshold which make possible to built a new community without the god as the borderline between the subject and the world(altrui). This is just the most important function of the modern secularity. This treatise deals with the process of the typical hero’s divers transformation on the secular world in the heroic narratives to show this phenomena as the evidence of the secular neighbor’s rising. In the belief that the regular neighbor beside us could be the stillborn hero, there must be the modern passionate love for constructing neighbor as our life’s meaning and modern citizen’s desire for arcade to rediscover our life’s meaning in the modern community designed in the style of market. All this process presuppose the absence of the god in silence, at that point we have lived the times narrating the godless community in the form of the novel.