포르노그래피

• 영문명: Pornography: ‘the feminal body’, and ‘Signifiance’
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 김석(Seok Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제17권 1호, 215~236쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.06.30

영문 초록

Pornography becomes a commercial object par excellence, which has penetrated into every nook and cranny of our daily lives. However, it is a mistake to think that we can explain the attraction of pornography from the view point of the pleasure principle. Pleasure is one thing and “jouissance” is another. Pornography should be understood in terms of jouissance, which is oriented toward not pleasure in general, but pleasure strictly prohibited. Pornography operates through the process of “signifiance”, which represents and signifinies the female body. But such an operation is destined to fail, leaving the drive behind it. The process of signifying feminal body is composed of three stages. The first is the representation of the “Thing,” that is the lost object and the “imago” of the mother as the object of sublimation and worship. The second is the figuration of the “abject” with the double value of fascination and of terror. The subject tries to destroy and to separate himself from this abject. The third is a type of fetish, which is supposed to supplement the lack in the human subject. The fetish assures the subject his sense of being alive by covering the “néancité” of being and demonstrating the drive. Pornography cannot revive sexual reality, but it veils only sexual lacks through fantasy by revealing the impossible femimal body through the process of signifiance. In effect, there is no sexual relationship.

목차

1. 포르노의 범람과 본질

2. ‘여성의 몸’과 시니피앙스(signifiance) 논리

3. ‘여성의 몸’이 발현되는 세 형상

4. 결론: 포르노의 효과와 본질

참고문헌

Abstract

키워드

pornography female body Signifiance Jouissance fetishism the Thing abject