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title={The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung},
journal={The Journal of Korean drama and theatre},
issn={1225-7729},
year={2025},
number={85},
pages={55-85}
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TI - The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung
JO - The Journal of Korean drama and theatre
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 85
PB - The Learned Society Of Korean Drama And Theatre
SP - 55
EP - 85
SN - 1225-7729
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze Choi Inhoon’s play, Dungdung Nakrangdung, through a psychoanalytic approach, focusing on the ethics in Queen’s repetition of Becoming the other. Dungdung Nakrangdung explores the possibility of an ethical subject focusing on the queen, taking the ending of the folk tale ‘Prince Hodong’ as a starting point. The queen is a person with multiple identities as Princess Nakrang’s twin sister, Hodong’s stepmother, and the mother shaman of Goguryeo. The queen deviates from her symbolic role and tries to identify with Princess Nakrang, the object of Hodong’s desire. Through playing with Hodong, the queen gradually becomes the subject who desires Hodong, and continues to repeat the repetition while enduring the pain of failing to become the other. The driving force for this repetition is in Jouissance, and the queen gazes at the gap of the Real and pushes the fantasy to the end. In this way, the queen enjoys and traverses fantasy, which leads to death drive. The queen is an ethical subject in that she pursues pure desire and the Real as the subject of the death drive until the moment of death. The Real that the queen aims for is embodied as the point of gaze and structure of the mise en abyme. This draws out the traces of the Real or the drive of the subject toward the Real, and at the same time makes the audience think about the ethics of drive. Dungdung Nakrangdung shows a new ethical subject through the queen’s narrative that shows drive and traversing fantasy in the repetition of becoming the other.
KW - Dungdung Nakrangdung;Mise en abyme;Queen;Gaze;Jouissance;Choi Inhoon;The ethics of drive;Becoming the other;Traversing fantasy.
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. (2025). The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 85, 55-85.
. 2025, "The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung", The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, no.85, pp.55-85.
"The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre 85 pp.55-85 (2025) : 55.
. The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung. 2025; 85 : 55-85.
. "The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.85(2025) : 55-85.
. The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 85, 55-85.
. The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre. 2025; 85 55-85.
. The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung. 2025; 85 : 55-85.
. "The ethics of the repetition of 'Becoming the other' in Dungdung Nakrangdung" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.85(2025) : 55-85.
