성(性) 소화(笑話)에 나타난 ‘엿보기’와 ‘엿듣기’ – 『어면순(禦眠楯)』을 중심으로 –

Abstract

In this study, I examined “peeping” and “eavesdropping” in the sexual stories of Eomyeonsoon (禦眠楯). When peeping and eavesdropping are both static “eyesight” and dynamic “action,” the unconscious desire contained in these acts and the perception of sex must be considered. The acts of peeping and eavesdropping are treated as a taboo in normal life, but in sexual stories, these acts are unpunished and drive the main story to the surface. The subjects of peeping and eavesdropping function as a messenger who peeps and eavesdrops on sexual intercourse, and he can be said to be a medium that creates humor. However, peeping and eavesdropping are events that cannot occur easily if there is an “agreement” between the subject and the object, and they are based on the presumption of the distinction between the subject and the object in themselves. Therefore, the representation of such acts means that the subjects of peeping and eavesdropping take place where he can peep and eavesdrop. The flow of the narrative, which ends with affirming the sexual desire of the peeper and eavesdropper, shows the mechanism and effect of voyeurism. In addition, the appearance of a woman who does not reject sexual intercourse reveals her body and her sexual intercourse to be something “wanted.” Through this, the body and the desire of women, which are objects of peeping and eavesdropping, are fetishized and the female body, which is the object of peeping, is further fragmented as the object of sexuality. When women’s bodies and sexual desires are fetishized differently from reality through peeking and eavesdropping, they are the sexual desires and pleasures of men, not women, that are behind this fetish. In the process of fetishization, men’s sexual desires and pleasures are disavowed and obscured; however, they actually already exist. Additionally, behind the fetishization of women’s sexuality the exclusion and discrimination against beings who cannot peep and eavesdrop exists when the situation unable to peeping and eavesdropping is treated as the “deficiency.”