@article{ART002262827},
author={Jung Sun Hee},
title={Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2017},
volume={10},
number={2},
pages={169-198},
doi={10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jung Sun Hee
TI - Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2017
VL - 10
IS - 2
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 169
EP - 198
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This paper examines the imperial ideology represented in Joseph Conrad’s work, Lord Jim focusing on Slavoj Žižek’s theory of reality as constructed fantasy, and investigates how Conrad’s Lord Jim discloses the contradiction of the ideology. The nineteenth-century Western European ideology at the root of Euro-Centrism and humanism, which Conrad often focused on, had a significant impact on forming the discourse of imperialism. The Inconvenient ghosts roaming in Conrad’s Lord Jim, which Žižek defines as Spectre, are the examples of the most important essence oppressed by ideology, returning in the guise of spectral apparition. This paper investigates the main character Jim’s feeling of guilt haunting him ceaselessly including the narrator Marlow and the compulsory repetitive action caused by it after jumping from the Patna and abandoning the passengers. I argue that “One of us” repeated by the narrator Marlow as a leitmotif represents the society of seaman and British imperialism at the same time, ironically the people who try to conceal the discrepancy and contradiction existing in the British imperialist society.
KW - ideology;imperialism;spectre;fantasy;Žižek;one of us
DO - 10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169
ER -
Jung Sun Hee. (2017). Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 10(2), 169-198.
Jung Sun Hee. 2017, "Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.10, no.2 pp.169-198. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169
Jung Sun Hee "Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 10.2 pp.169-198 (2017) : 169.
Jung Sun Hee. Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”. 2017; 10(2), 169-198. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169
Jung Sun Hee. "Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 10, no.2 (2017) : 169-198.doi: 10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169
Jung Sun Hee. Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 10(2), 169-198. doi: 10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169
Jung Sun Hee. Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2017; 10(2) 169-198. doi: 10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169
Jung Sun Hee. Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”. 2017; 10(2), 169-198. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169
Jung Sun Hee. "Reading Lord Jim Based on Slavoj Žižek’s “Fantasy” and “Spectre”" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 10, no.2 (2017) : 169-198.doi: 10.22901/trans.2017.10.2.169
