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A Study of the novel 「CORN AND I 옥수수와 나」 by Young-Ha, Kim

Sangwoo Lee 1

1한남대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

「CORN AND I 옥수수와 나」 by Young-Ha, Kim is a novel with an embodiment about the famous 'joke' of the fool in the book of Zizek which philosophy is interpreted as a cultural aspect. These days, a cultural understanding becomes understanding of Zizek. This novel is an easy guide of Zizek's philosophy and it embody his philosophy in the novel. Young-Ha, Kim says that a person who has an objective belief is the Symbolic person. He is the one who acts like the Other and knows very well about producing and reproducing the power. Moreover, he is a owner of the publishing company which suppresses the pure subject. Like an organized and detailed plot, he is a person who has actualized well about properties of modern capitalism under a thorough consideration of input and output. He criticized the realities of the writer which were suppressed by the condition and an ideological fantasy of the capitalism. So, society has to have a fantasy for limiting the reality of society to maintain the world. For that, it becomes a factor for the suppression on entering the Real and the Imaginary. If a belief remains as psychical and subjective one, he will be regulated and might be endangered on an irrational world. However, this kind of an irrational world can appear a selective subject by opposing and stirring up the power of the Other. It comes out as a vital factor of the life with a choice of the subject who is free from the custom and restriction. An irrational world is the Real. Moreover, it is not possible when the world is registered by the Other who shows the symbolical force of the law. This is a criticism from Young-Ha, Kim about the reality stated below. The reality of the Other which is maximized with a symbolical effect is considering one capital ideology. Moreover, it is possible when father's law and language is identified while bringing in that place. The writer in psychical and subjective condition of belief could be played on reality. And the Third World, which can be a surrounding or outskirts country, is on the situation that could be used and exploited by the middle, and main capitalism where a capital power is produced and consumed.

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