육체 없는 국민의 건강과 혐오 - 현대 한국의 ‘정치위생학’ 비판

Abstract

This article examines the paradigm of ‘the political hygiene’ in contemporary Korea by reading the public hygiene discourses and institutions, novels dealing with apartment in 1960s-70s, and an interpretation of Yushin-Constitution. The agenda of public hygiene began to be regarded as a venue where natural and material environment, conventions in everyday life, public health, food, and eugenics were complicatedly intertwined. This means that the paradigm of the political hygiene which consisted of the projective disgust that a group of people was hated and excluded from social space by being projected primordial disgusting object. The body of women and the past in ourselves were the object of the projective disgust. The one was split in healthy maternal body and a disposal facilities of disgusting stuff, and the other was represented ‘the bad blood’ which was thought of as a dwelling place of virus and, thus, should be eliminated from our milieu of everyday life. Apartment, main form of housing since 1970s, accelerated the political hygiene practice in the level of everyday life and performance. It was represented as a futuristic space where any kind of dirty thing from the past never took place in and any kind of primitive sexual desire or behavior should not be permitted. In apartment, ‘normal’ housekeeper women lived with extreme hygiene and industrial stuffs. Yushin-Constitution was an ideal perfection of such kind of political hygiene because it defined the sovereign people without any bodily trait which could infected by various virus. And this paradigm of the political hygiene has sustained itself even after so called democratization.