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A Study on the Psychological Mechanism and Aesthetic Modernity in Kim, Seung ok’s Novel - Chapter 0 under the moonlight of Seoul - Centering around the Interrelation between the Formal Structure of the Novel and the Social Framework -
Journal of Humanities
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This thesis is going along with the purpose of illuminating the social meaning which is expressed as the immanent aspect in the text and the novelistic value through the consideration of the aesthetic form in Kim, Seung ok’s novel Chapter 0 under the moonlight of Seoul. ‘Imitation of another’s desire’, ‘melancholy’ and ‘allegory’ become the important aesthetic forms which the novelist uses for expressing the social structure of the 1970s with the deepened materialistic phenomenon. The psychological mechanism of the imitative desire which constitutes Chapter 0 under the moonlight of Seoul replaces the intermediate Phenomenon by the exchange value which the society of the 1970s generates with the indirect pursuit method of the desire in the novel. In the novel, the thing which damages the hero’s desire and leads into heteronomous and indirect direction is the influence of the sign of the exchange value which is rampant in those fetishistic days. Meanwhile, the narrative structure of Chapter 0 under the moonlight of Seoul unfolds the picture of the society of the 1970s which the consume of the desire and pleasure feeds back and becomes corrupt in the commutation relationship catching the allegorical thought and image through hero’s melancholic symptom. All the hero’s interior monolog which spread out in the novel being crossed by desire and hatred of his divorced wife are the groomy allegory for the fetishistic phenomenon and the erosion of the value in the Korean society in the 1970s. Chapter 0 under the moonlight of Seoul skims off the romantic illusion which the existing novel looks forward to the main character, and gets the social meaning and novelistic value by pointing out the author, reader and the novel’s hero with the era and society as one through the psychological mechanism of the imitative desire and the ‘allegory’ form.
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