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This study examines the way the discourse is structured in <Seungsarok>, a travelogue of Gangnam left by the 19th century Yeongnam scholar Choi Doo-chan(1779-1821), and the subtle changes in the author's sensibility accordingly. <Seungsarok> is the only record of Gangnam drift from the 19th century, and although it provides important clues in many aspects, it has long received less scholarly interest than other drift records. This study examines the discourse characteristics of <Seungsarok> and the emotional transformation of the author, which have not been studied in earnest until now, from a new perspective, Pěcheux’s theory as the relationship between ‘subject(Choi, Doo-chan) and Subject(environment)’. First, <Seungsarok> is largely divided into three parts. The first is from the departure from Jeju to the landing at Mt. Bota. It was exciting, but when a storm hit and life and death were at a crossroads, it showed the emotions of fear, anxiety, and helplessness that the drift itself brings. In this process, it presents an aesthetic of anti-identification that is not in harmony with the Subject. Second, in the Gangnam cultural experience section, the subject clearly reveals self-awareness within the emotions of ‘joy and sadness’. As the previously uneasy emotion was replaced by a sense of stability, Gangnam was newly captured through the subject's gaze. The scenery, the sense of kinship and emotional unity with Gangnam writers are portrayed positively. In other words, various aspects of sympathy and emotional identification with the Subject are discovered. The last part is the return/repatriation period (June 10 to October 2: Seokmun to Uiju), which is a period of general anxiety, including reminiscence of history that had not been discovered before and antipathy toward the Qing Dynasty. Overall, it is discovered that nostalgia in the sensibility of anxiety is the mainstream, showing a new sensibility that is out of sync with the Subject surrounding the subject and the aesthetics of anti-identification. In fact, even within the discourse characteristics of the period of drift with a certain pattern of launch-drift-return, experiences at each period tend to create new meanings and emotions. In that respect, this study, which examines how the author's emotional changes due to movement in time and space are expressed in the text, provides a foundation for understanding the internal principles of the entire work by finding the fine textures of the work hidden between letters. At the same time, it is meaningful in that it opens a way to understand a single literary work.

Choi Doo-chan, <Seungsarok>, emotion, subject-Subject, identification-‘anti-identification’