박경리 소설에 나타난 '죄의식'의 경제

Abstract

Kyung-Ri Park is well known as the writer of The Land(土地), the historical novel. The Land is written from 1969 to 1994, and Kyung-Ri Park has been writing from 1955. So, before writing The Land, she had written many works. This essay aims to explore Kyung-Ri Parks novel thoroughly. In order to realize this aim, this essay study the pre-works of The Land, and then based on the result, re-read The Land. Through reading Kyung-Ri Parks novel over all, it is found that Parks most prominent concern is the Consciousness of Guilt. This essay focus on this problem ; How the Consciousness of Guilt is generating and resolving in Parks novel is the main concern of this thesis. This is similar to the principle of economy, so this essay use the term economy in relation to the Consciousness of Guilt as the economy of Jouissance. From the Parks early novels, crime [guilt] and punishment are appeared as the main motif. Kyung-Ri Park is consistently exploring the issue. Accordingly, the problem of Law is also the main idea in her novels. This essay is beginning to discuss the thoughts about the Law appeared in her novels. It is analyzed into two cases. One is the case that there isnt connection between the administration of Law and the Consciousness of Guilt. The other is that a person who is guilt doesnt awake the Consciousness of Guilt in relation to the Administration of Law. These aspects found in Parks novels are essentially caused from the idea about Law. As reading Parks novels, we can find Parks ideas about the Law that dont guarantee the goodness. This idea is related with the Kants thought of the Law as Pure Form. According to this idea, the realization of goodness isnt guaranteed by the Law, that is, Law dont take its material from the transcendental goodness. Parks novels represent these idea through events and characters dialogues. The former is well represented in the novels as The Days of Fantasy, A Window, the Land (Section 5), and the latter is appeared in the novels as A Human Being, A Betrayer, A Dislocation, The Land. Based on these aspects found in the Parks novels, this essay draw a conclusion on the Consciousness of Guilt patterns and origin. In Parks novels, we can find two types of the Consciousness of Guilt. One is related to the first case above mentioned; the Consciousness of Guilt originated from the relation with character [person] itself, especially family members or lovers. The other is related to the second case above mentioned; Characters dont having any Consciousness of Guilt on the crime [guilt] is greedy for worldly riches or power. Even though they are punished for their misconduct, they dont awake any guilt. It is problematic that Park does not stop to punish these characters by law. She reveals the idea if one person punished by law on his misdeed does not have any Consciousness of Guilt, then his guilt are not paid off. The Guilt is succeeded to his offsprings as a Symbolic Debt; So, this pattern is also related with family. Park does also reveals in her novels the origin of these two patterns of guilt. Its origin is not simply Superego such as Freud asserts, but also abstract subjective essence of human beings desire insisted by Deleuze. Parks quest for the guilt begins to explore such nature of human beings desire, no longer in relation to objects, aims, or even sources. Such a essence of desire showed in An open Field lit up with the glow. These are discussed in second chapter of this essay.