Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yoo, Hyon Joo

Titel

The Cartography of the Abject Nation in Thirst and Still Life.(Global East Asian Cinema: Abjection and Agency)

Ist Teil von

• Studies in the humanities (Indiana), 2019-03, Vol.44 (1-2), p.113-XXIV

Ort / Verlag

Indiana: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]we see him sitting on a boat full of migrants crossing the Yangzi River, belting out, with crude, pre-pubescent eagerness, a popular love song. Unpacking Lacan's statement that woman doesn't exist, Copjec posits: "Lacan is undoubtedly arguing that a concept of woman cannot be constructed because the task of fully unfolding her conditions is one that cannot, in actuality, be carried out. Since we are finite beings, bound by space and time, our knowledge is subject to historical conditions. The prayer's expression of longing for annihilation harkens not to spiritual transcendence, but rather to the obtaining of an abject body, such as we see in horror genre films, where subjects turn monstrous in order to signify and embody the unspeakable pleasure of being beyond human ontology. [...]abjection makes possible emancipatory moments in which Tae-ju is able to escape the inscription of the family, and Sang-hyun is able to escape instrumental reason of religious institutions. [...]in order to understand the application of theoretical schemes such as the Big Other and feminine jouissance, we must look into the historical circumstances of their particular shape.