우울증적 주체와 백낙청의 리얼리즘론

Abstract

This study is aimed to critically reconsider Baek Nakchung's Realism of the 70s and 80s. Especially focusing on the dualist worldview in Baek Nakchung's Realism, I‘ve tried to reveal his homogeneous modernity. Baek Nakchung tried to overcome modernity, which has limited his whole theory and practice. But Baek Nakchung's Realism shows the homogeneous modernity of the archetypal modern subject on a philosophical, social and cultural level. Social and cultural changes since the 1990s have rapidly shrunk the powerful social influence of these Baek Nakchung and 󰡔Changbi󰡕 camps, and Baek Nakchung's Realism has also lost its clarity in the process of expanding its reach outward. However, this predicament of Baek Nakchung's Realism was obvious in the 60s. Baek Nakchung's Realism is the theory of pointing out 'not true' in order to find 'true'. In fact, a mindset similar to Baek Nakchung is surprisingly found in F.R. Leavis, a conservative intellectual in England. Just as Leavis's literary theory has secured its own authority as a transcendental ideology that focuses on the individual's 'true' life or essence, Baek Nakchung’s thinking on authenticity also comes back to an intuitive authority to avoid rational attacks. Of course, we can not just explain similarity between Leavis and Baek in terms of ideology alone. It was the enthusiasm of the modern subject pursuing 'authenticity' against the existing system, the Passion of the Real of the 20th century, the desire to find 'the solid thing that does not melt' in the experience of Modernity, and most of all, it was the strategy of the Melancholic Subject. Now the main practice of our society should be toward futility and cynicism. This is why Baek Nakchung's Realism needs to evolve. In order for our age to rediscover its potential again at this limit, it will be necessary to escape the Melancholic strategy.