댈러웨이 부인의 양가적 욕망 —『댈러웨이 부인』에 나타난 라캉적 여성성 (Mrs. Dalloway’s Ambivalent Desires: Lacanian Femininity in Mrs. Dalloway)

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초록

Critics of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway fall into two groups: one group of critics maintain that Woolf criticizes the snobbery of Mrs. Dalloway as an upholder of middle-class ideology, while the other group pay their attention to her unconscious desire to find something meaningful that goes beyond middle class ideology. These two seemingly incompatible aspects, however, co-exist in her, and can be explained in terms of Lacanian “femininity” because it is characterized by the coexistence of conflicting desires to stay in the “symbolic”/society as well as to pursue the “real” excluded from the symbolic.
Mrs. Dalloway is a typical exemplar of the Lacanian femininity. She who chose a “socially” stable man as her husband, now prepares a party to have “socially” influential people under her roof. During the party, however, she retires to her “little room” to think about the death of Septimus who committed a suicide as defiance against Lacanian “symbolic”/society, and approves of his suicide as a means of preserving his own “treasure”/Lacanian “real.” She, however, ultimately returns to the party because Lacanian “subject” can “emerge” only in the symbolic. In this sense, Mrs. Dalloway is the embodiment of Lacanian femininity, because, “she is not not at all there[the symbolic]. She is there in full. But there is something more.”

영어초록

Critics of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway fall into two groups: one group of critics maintain that Woolf criticizes the snobbery of Mrs. Dalloway as an upholder of middle-class ideology, while the other group pay their attention to her unconscious desire to find something meaningful that goes beyond middle class ideology. These two seemingly incompatible aspects, however, co-exist in her, and can be explained in terms of Lacanian “femininity” because it is characterized by the coexistence of conflicting desires to stay in the “symbolic”/society as well as to pursue the “real” excluded from the symbolic.
Mrs. Dalloway is a typical exemplar of the Lacanian femininity. She who chose a “socially” stable man as her husband, now prepares a party to have “socially” influential people under her roof. During the party, however, she retires to her “little room” to think about the death of Septimus who committed a suicide as defiance against Lacanian “symbolic”/society, and approves of his suicide as a means of preserving his own “treasure”/Lacanian “real.” She, however, ultimately returns to the party because Lacanian “subject” can “emerge” only in the symbolic. In this sense, Mrs. Dalloway is the embodiment of Lacanian femininity, because, “she is not not at all there[the symbolic]. She is there in full. But there is something more.”

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