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The Significance of Affected Areas in the Early Novels of Yi Chong-jun: “Discharge” and “A Fool and An Idiot”
탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
2019,
12(1), pp.101-127
DOI : 10.22901/trans.2019.12.1.101
Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
Research Area : Other Humanities
DOI : 10.22901/trans.2019.12.1.101
Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
Research Area : Other Humanities
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The purpose of this study is to observe the significance of affected areas that appear in the early novels of Yi Chong-jun and their causes and aspects. The cause of their pain is found to be their original experiences of mental trauma. In particular, such original experiences are mainly connected to experiences and memories associated with the stare of others, especially that of their fathers. Such violence and exclusion produce feelings of shame and guilt and such shame and guilt are both the symptoms and causes of affected areas. I connected microscopic power of Michel Foucault with external power and surveillance Michel Foucault which produce feelings of shame and guilt in the characters appearing in the early novels of Yi Chong-jun. The first chapter of this article, with regard to the stare that become the causes of affected areas, divides surveillance and oppression into macroscopic focus that stems from others and microscopic internal focus that acts within the divided agent, and the latter was prescribed and examined to be another form of duplicated focus. The second chapter observed the self-effacement of the characters as a form of oblivion and pain to conceal their affected areas. The third chapter observed their efforts to recover their selves and their supported arousals, and lastly, the fourth chapter observed the meanings of boundaries surrounding wounds, affected areas and weaknesses, and the inner and outer parts of wounds through text analysis. To sum up, I examined the grounds and images that are the psychological form of Yi Chong-jun’s novels through the meanings and aspects of affected areas which appear in his early short stories. However, it is impossible to know where ‘the escaping me’ and ‘the finding me’ which repeatedly appear in his texts meet, and the only thing that could be known was that the process and journey of continuous question and answer finding, explorations of language, the writer’s (master artisan’s) sense of identity and the projection of writing as their own narration were working together as the fates of the characters and writer being interlocked. This study has significance in that it observed the part of that (trauma, original form) focusing on wounds, pain, and affected areas appearing in early short novels.
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