『다섯째 아이』에 드러난 아브젝시옹에 관한 이야기

• 영문명: eading A Story about Abjection in The Fifth Child: Monstrous Child and Monstrous Mother
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 이선정(Seonjung Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제143호, 75~98쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.12.31

영문 초록

This paper aims to explore how the process of abjection affects an individual’s psychological reality by reading Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child from a Kristevan perspective. At the individual level, Ben, a retarded child born with deformity, is deprived of opportunities to enjoy the experience of semiotic chora, which will help him accept the law of language in the Symbolic. As an abjected monster, he reveals the process of the mother’s abjection operating in both inter-subjective and intra-subjective relationships. At the level of the social unconscious, Harriet, who gave birth to this monstrous child, is an embodiment of the archaic mother, who is essential to but potentially disruptive of the patriarchal order with its uncontrollable generative power. Despite societal suppression she suffer, Harriet shows the ethics of a mature subject based on maternal love by reinstating Ben into their home in spite of family’s disapproval, and by admitting that the monstrous child’s foreign otherness exists not outside but within ourselves.

목차

1. 들어가며

2. 괴물 어머니 혹은 태고의 어머니

3. 아브젝트로서의 괴물 아이

4. 나오며

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키워드

『다섯째 아이』 도리스 레싱 아브젝시옹 기호적 코라 주체성 타자성 태고의 어머니 괴물 아이 The Fifth Child Doris Lessing abjection semiotic chora subjectivity otherness archaic mother monstrous child