실재를 향한 열정으로서 포르노

• 영문명: Pornography as the Passion for the Real
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 김종갑(Jonggab Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제17권 1호, 237~260쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.06.30

영문 초록

This paper is an attempt to define pornography in terms of decontextualization, which lies at the core of modernity. While sexuality in the premodern society was embedded in the social and cosmic whole, the modern sexuality was disembedded and isolated from such a context. Max Weber and Anthony Giddens defined modernity as an emergence of atomic individuals floating in the boundless ocean of freedom, without being anchored to traditional conventions or obligations. I argue in this paper that such an individualism free from social context gave rise to “the passion for the real,” which is the passion for the real sex in pornography; as sexuality is linked to pornography, modern subjectivity to atomic individuality. It goes without saying that pornography is a sexually explicit representation of the body as an object of desire, but what is in need of further explication is the nature of the sexualized body, for it is not the body as a whole, but the body fragmented into bits and pieces, resembling the status of the modern ego. Such desire for the real raises its head; since the body is represented as partial objects devoid of their bodily context, the real of the body should be restored, and as such the pornographic subject is on a journey looking for and delving into the real essence of sexuality. But such a goal cannot be attained and satisfaction is endlessly deferred. Here lies the dialectic of pornographic desire: the subject interprets the impossibility of the real as the occasion for one to continue further sexual journeys, replacing impossible satisfaction with delayed satisfaction. The pursuit becomes the very goal in a way that the desire for the real turns into a desire for the pornographic desire. Pornographic desire is the desire for unsatisfied sexuality, endlessly unachieved.

목차

1. 포르노의 매혹

2. 실재에의 열정

3. 포르노 중독 사례와 분석

4. 탈맥락화로서 포르노

5. 존재를 향한 열망으로서 포르노

6. 결론

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

포르노 바디우 실재 하이퍼섹스 파편화된 몸 성기 pornography Badiou the real hypersexuality fragmented body genitals