에드거 앨런 포우와 공백의 사유 :「어셔가의 몰락」과 「검은 고양이」에 나타난 공백과 윤리

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doi:10.24152/NCLE.2017.12.21.3.37

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「어셔가의 몰락」과 「검은 고양이」에 나타난 공백과 윤리

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19세기영어권문학회
19세기 영어권 문학 학술저널
19세기 영어권 문학 제21권 제3호
2017.12 37 - 62 (26page)
DOI : 10.24152/NCLE.2017.12.21.3.37

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This paper is an attempt to reinterpret Edgar Allan Poe’s characters from the perspective of psychoanalytic ethics. Most of psychoanalytic approaches to Poe have focused on the ‘return of the repressed,’ a fundamental concept in the field of psychoanalysis. However, the repressed object, as a kernel of these studies, indicates the locus of an ‘emptiness’ the subject cannot recognize consciously. This emptiness, as a terminus of the subject’s desire, is related with an instance of the ethical subject. Insofar as the emptiness is a crack of the symbolic order, insofar as the emptiness stops the signification of the symbolic order, it is a sign of the birth of the ethical subject. This ethics should be distinguished from modern ethics, especially a Kantian’s. While the Kantian ethics means that the subject must obey his/her moral law as a categorical imperative, the ethics of psychoanalysis rather means that the subject should overthrow and traverse his/her moral law. By breaking an oppressive moral law and yielding his/her desire to none, the subject can be situated at the ethical level. I argue that Poe’s characters traverse the boundaries of the symbolic and, therefore, they can be read as ethical subjects. Roderick Usher, in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” incarnates emptiness with the purpose of destroying the tyrannical symbolic order. The narrator of “The Black Cat,” confronting patriarchal ideology, kills not only cats and his wife but also his symbolic law. In this sense, Poe’s characters can be interpreted as exemplars of what is called the psychoanalytic subject. Before the advent of psychoanalysis in its full-fledged sense, Poe already practiced psychoanalytic thoughts in his experimental texts.

#에드거 앨런 포우(Edgar Allan Poe) #어셔가의 몰락(“The Fall of the House of Usher”) #검은 고양이(“The Black Cat”) #자크 라캉(Jacques Lacan) #정신분석(psychoanalysis) #공백(emptiness)