조이스의 유토피아적 욕망과 파국의 상상력 = Joyce’s Utopian Desire and the Catastrophic Imagination in “Circe”

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this essay is to explore Joyce’s utopian desire by analyzing the way to deconstruct the Apocalyptic structure of Bloom’s psychodrama in the “Circe” episode. Based on the previous studies on Bloom’s sex/gender transformation in this episode, this essay particularly emphasizes the following points. First, Joyce’s use of the catastrophic imagination in the Apocalyptic structure is “jocoseriously free”: comic, secular, elusive, and sometimes contradictory rather than clear, prophetic, and inflexible. Second, on the expressionistic Circean stage, Bloom’s surrealistic hallucination unveils not only his hidden sexual guilt and private trauma but, more broadly, figures the unconscious sexual dialect that his early motherhood underlies the father’s law. Third, Bloom’s gender crossings and masochistic humiliation leads him finally to the catastrophic moment of his sexual abjection which makes him enable to participate in the carnivalesque comedy of infidelity not as passive victim, but as the active director. Consequently, Joyce’s writing reveals one of his multi-directed paradoxical utopian visions in terms of sexual politics.

국문 초록 (Abstract)

본 논문은 『율리시스』의 「퀴르케」 중에서 블룸이 정체성을 상실하는 파국의 장면에 이르는 변신과정을 살펴봄으로써 조이스의 유토피아적 욕망을 탐색하는데 초점을 맞추고 있다. 파국적 감성은 위기의식과 늘 병행하는 상상력으로 「퀴르케」에서는 블룸의 성적 죄의식이 낳은 트라우마가 모두 표출되는 순간에 정체성을 상실하는 위기에 부딪친다. 그러나 그 상실이 영원한 소멸과 종언으로 끝나는 것이 아니라 새로운 창조와 생성을 위한 에너지가 된다. 블룸이 펼치는 다양한 성변환과 매조키즘의 환상은 “새로운 여성형 남성”이 아일랜드의 가부장제 사회에서 “내면화된 어머니”를 찾으려는 혁신적 욕망을 드러내는 탐색이다.

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