Although masculine domination is said to dominate the surface of Lee, Cheong-jun's fictions, it is feminity that destroys and scatters around such discourses on the masculine domination. Feminine metaphors like 'the sea' and 'the island' in his storie...
Although masculine domination is said to dominate the surface of Lee, Cheong-jun's fictions, it is feminity that destroys and scatters around such discourses on the masculine domination. Feminine metaphors like 'the sea' and 'the island' in his stories function as a fetishistic illusion. For example, 'the sea'in "Ieodo", "Your Paradise", "Seokhwachon(石花村)", and "People by the Sea" causes endless illusions for the male subjects to desire for something beyond the horizon. "Your Paradise" deals with fetishism of 'the sea' around the island called 'Sorokdo', a place for people different from mainlanders Coinciding with the external substance of 'Hansen's disease', 'the sea' creates unapproachable fear for other people. The place 'beyond the horizon' as the tabooed place connotes the desire for being one with the mother in the place of death. "Ieodo" covering the disappearance of author does not get off the Cheon mainstream much. 'A popular song' sung by Cheon's mother is the fetishistic 'remainder' and incantation to lead male subjects to the sea. Likewise, "Ieodo" includes such feminine mechanism as the 'woman', 'island', and 'sea' to disrupt male's homogeneous mechanism.
Byulnyae in "Seokhwaschon" lead 'Geomu' to death by working as a certain spirit unknown to herself. 'Byulnyae' is a metaphor symbolizing motherhood as a 'object petit a' area. The texts originated from discussing muscular domination reveal the structure of dominating ideology broken down by fetishistic remainders like 'a popular song'. In other words, feminity arouses illusions to dispel the discourses on muscular domination in his fictions.