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Woman's repressed desire and the politics of overthrow

JinWol Yoo 1

1한서대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The women characters express women's repressed desire by divided selves in reality and fantasy and they challenge the fixed idea of women to try overthrow it in <Faceless Beauty> and <The Red Shoes>. JiSoo in <Faceless Beauty> expresses women's sexuality by women writing and comes back from the repressed. <The Red Shoes> is the important seeing on the women's body and expression of women's desire. Women say about themselves by the body which was regulated as dirty and inferior body. Women express to connect the repressed selves between the real and fantasy and hysteria with their body and language repressed for a long time and liberate themselves. Hysteria which is so complicated province of women can expresses the change of rising and falling. This women's crazy, anger and hysteria are strategy of overthrow to JiSoo and SunJae in <The Red Shoes>. Women open space of the probability as subject when they go inner and outer of patriarchy by hysteria. They are in discord with maternity. The body of JiSoo to reject to pregnant is to be the uncanny space of repressed. The maternity is confused and the relation of mother and daughter is conflicted and breaks the fixed idea to women. JiSoo's broken body and faceless body means the denial to body shape the patriarchy fixed. The desire of SunJae to have red shoes and the punishment to the person to stole it mean the resistance to the role of mother and overthrow on the desire and anger repressed for a long time. The men's desire to restruct women with their style is weaken by resistance of JiSoo and SunJae and their relationship is overthrown men subject/women object.

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