『프랑켄슈타인』에 나타난 “낯선 두려움”－ 서사 구조, 응시, 비체에 대한 정신분석학적 접근 (“The Uncanny” in Frankenstein: An Psychoanalytic Approach to the Narrative Structure, Gaze, and the Abject)

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초록

This psychoanalytic reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus(1818) mainly focuses on the concept of ‘unheimlich' or ‘uncanny' effect of Sigmund Freud's in the novel with regard to narrative structures, gaze, and abject concept. English ‘uncanny' includes its opposite word ‘canny,' like German ‘unheimlich(uncomfortable, uneasy, gloomy, dismal, ghostly)' does the opposite ‘heimlich(familiar, homely, cozy, intimate)'. The essential ambiguity and the fundamental ambivalence of ‘uncanny' can be discussed in the 3 different narrative levels of the explorer Walton, the scientist Victor, and failed creature Monster; and in the ‘objet a' in the dialectic interaction of gaze between Victor and Monster in the 3 visual primal scenes; and finally in the indeterminacy and uncertainty in the abject body of Monster intimidating the boundary between interior and exterior.
Walton, Victor and Monster, the main subjects in Frankenstein have the essential ambiguity and the fundamental ambivalence in the 3 levels: the narrative transference of desire in the different narrations; the visual sphere with the dialectic of eye and gaze; finally the obscure abject in in-between space of subject and object. The uncanny subject, the anonymous Monster is related with the rational scientist Victor Frankenstein or the modern explorer Robert Walton as his own identical double and the alter ego in the narrative level(Peter Brooks), in the visual level(Jacques Lacan), and in the abject bodily level(Julia Kristeva). The narrators in the text are interrelated in the narrative ‘transference' of desire, the seer and the object to be seen are intermixed each other in the sphere of dialectic of eye and ‘gaze', and finally the modern subject of self-identity and the absolute certainty is intermingled with the obscure and ambiguous subject, so called the ‘abject' Monster. The ambiguous monstrosity is the current condition of the modern Prometheus including the unconscious.

영어초록

This psychoanalytic reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus(1818) mainly focuses on the concept of ‘unheimlich' or ‘uncanny' effect of Sigmund Freud's in the novel with regard to narrative structures, gaze, and abject concept. English ‘uncanny' includes its opposite word ‘canny,' like German ‘unheimlich(uncomfortable, uneasy, gloomy, dismal, ghostly)' does the opposite ‘heimlich(familiar, homely, cozy, intimate)'. The essential ambiguity and the fundamental ambivalence of ‘uncanny' can be discussed in the 3 different narrative levels of the explorer Walton, the scientist Victor, and failed creature Monster; and in the ‘objet a' in the dialectic interaction of gaze between Victor and Monster in the 3 visual primal scenes; and finally in the indeterminacy and uncertainty in the abject body of Monster intimidating the boundary between interior and exterior.
Walton, Victor and Monster, the main subjects in Frankenstein have the essential ambiguity and the fundamental ambivalence in the 3 levels: the narrative transference of desire in the different narrations; the visual sphere with the dialectic of eye and gaze; finally the obscure abject in in-between space of subject and object. The uncanny subject, the anonymous Monster is related with the rational scientist Victor Frankenstein or the modern explorer Robert Walton as his own identical double and the alter ego in the narrative level(Peter Brooks), in the visual level(Jacques Lacan), and in the abject bodily level(Julia Kristeva). The narrators in the text are interrelated in the narrative ‘transference' of desire, the seer and the object to be seen are intermixed each other in the sphere of dialectic of eye and ‘gaze', and finally the modern subject of self-identity and the absolute certainty is intermingled with the obscure and ambiguous subject, so called the ‘abject' Monster. The ambiguous monstrosity is the current condition of the modern Prometheus including the unconscious.

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