생기적 대화주의와 직관적 자유인의 복원: 『느릅나무 밑의 욕망』과 『매장된 아이』를 중심으로

Abstract

Such meta-theatrical dramas as Desire under the Elms and Buried Child principally show the inner confliction of paranoiac delusional disorder and obsession derived from incest, Oedipus complex, and Lacanian imaginary’s mirror stage. Both of these literary works destroy the illusion and fabrication of the American family myth and success dream based on the patriarchal system and Christian logocentric authority. They disclose the political duplicity and distortion of American culture, which has divided the invisible dichotomous border between sexuality genders, reality and simulacre, races, consumer classes, and signifier and signified. These expressionistic, absurd, and hyper-realistic meta-dramas show the paradox, tragicomedy, irony, violence, regression, subversion, sexual perversion, aphasia, and frequent slip of tongue in the recirculing stage of multilevel structures confused with past and present.