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Failures of Love: A Psychological Study on the Characters of Han Mu-suk Novel

Jung, Eunkyoung 1

1중앙대학교

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This paper examines how the 'impossibility of love' in Han Mu-suk's short story works in the private and public spheres. The characters of the Han Mu-suk’ short story are generally compelled by the superego, following the traditional sexual morality. Their strong sense of morality contributes to the consolidation of existing order by embodying the desires and dreams of love as those caught in hysteria of insanity and fantasy. In other words, it is a conformity to patriarchy, and at the same time, approval of the existing class system. The impossibility of love is related to the impossibility of freedom. The failure of Han Mu-suk's characters’s love also failed because of class differences. The obsessive character of Han Mu-suk, who belongs to the ruling class, participates in the revolution by guilt, not by consent or will to revolution. Han Mu-suk short stories show people's desires, conflicts, and cracks, but they endure this by advocating traditional order and the existing system. However, this is not the consciousness or limit of the individual, but rather the limit of the era in the name of 'woman writer' at that time. Han Mu-suk paradoxically examines the ideology of domination by drawing the loves that constantly challenge the existing order and symbolism, though it is a failure.

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