Taoist Self-Development vs. Jungian Wholeness

Hwang, Eunju(황은주) 한국동서비교문학학회 2009 동서 비교문학저널 Vol.0 No.21

The Natural Transformation Quartet is British science fiction writer J. G. Ballard’s earliest four novels. In extreme natural catastrophes, the main protagonists go into the disaster areas while ordinary people seek safe places to avoid natural disasters. This attitude is regarded as heroic in this essay, rather than a meaningless suicidal act. Many critics including Roger Luckhurst read Ballard’s Natural Transformation Quartet with Jungian theories. In this essay, instead of the Jungian double, Taoism is applied to Ballard’s novels in the sense that the characters have more than one double and their journey to discover the true self does not end. Ballard’s heroes find their true self by submitting themselves to the natural force, rather than facing or avoiding it. In Jungian terms, there is a psychic goal to attain, to become one with one’s own shadow, however, in Taoism, the process of self-development is permanently ongoing. In terms of the endless process of self-development in nature, Ballard’s four novels are read in the Taoist frame. This essay interprets Ballard’s Natural Transformation Quartet as affirmative, reading them as psychic Bildungsromans not as disaster stories.

리듬, 도주, 소진― 「필경사 바틀비」와 19세기 뉴욕 사무노동자

황은주 ( Eunju Hwang ) 서울대학교 미국학연구소 2016 미국학 Vol.39 No.2

Utilizing Henry Lefebvre`s notion of a-rythmie in Elements de rhythmanalyse, this article analyzes the way Bartleby disturbs the rhythms of labor in the office through his stillness. Bartleby is a “nomad” of nineteenth-century New York in Deleuze-Guattarian sense; he creates a line of flight to escape from the endlessly boring and exhausting job that he has to endure as a copyist. His physical symptoms of fatigue and the line of flight that he creates are worth investigating because they illuminate what could happen to a clerk in the context of mass education, the shift from the apprenticeship system to the wage labor system, and of the narrow potential for upward mobility. This article in the end aims to argue that Bartleby`s flight may be considered as both escape and resistance.

플라톤의 동굴의 비유로 본 영화 〈매트릭스〉

황은주(Hwang Eunju) 한국동서비교문학학회 2012 동서 비교문학저널 Vol.0 No.26

This article analyzes a 1999 film The Matrix, directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, in the frame of Plato’s allegory of the cave. In Plato’s allegory of the cave, this article particularly focuses on the part where the prisoner goes back to the cave after being released from his chains, in order to let other prisoners know the truth. Why is the truth important to know and why should the truth be shared? Why does Neo, the protagonist in The Matrix, have to liberate others? While trying to answer to the questions, this article examines the meaning of liberation and truth, through the allegorical connection between the film and Plato’s allegory of the cave. In order to analyze both the film and the allegory of the cave, this article delves into Heidegger’s concept of authenticity. This article also argues that differentiating hyperreality from reality is not as simple as the film’s binarism between the matrix and reality represented by a levitating ship called Nebuchadnezzar. As Heidegger observes that there is also fire(the truth) in the cave(a false reality), this article includes the matrix in the realm of reality, rather than defining the matrix as opposing to reality.

통제 사회에서의 시선과 권력의 역전관계

황은주(Hwang, Eunju) 한국동서비교문학학회 2010 동서 비교문학저널 Vol.0 No.23

In this essay, J. G. Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash is discussed to define ‘desire to be seen’ in Deleuzian control societies where ‘to be seen’ provides modern human beings with more power than ‘to see.’ In discipline societies, visibility was a trap, but in control societies, to be forgotten is what modern human beings are most afraid of. In control societies, the more a person is seen, the more power s/he has. In Crash, Ballard describes modern human beings’ desperate desire to be seen through the heroes’ designing for their own death and recording crash sites. Vaughan’s desire to be seen in the most famous crash is related to modern control societies for two reasons. First, in control societies where every social factor is controlled, the only way human beings enjoy freedom is ironically to submit to the social control in order to become famous revealing more personal information, because this makes them more visible, therefore, more powerful. Second, after the development of media technology such as TV, films or the Internet, modern human beings are likely to consider reality as cinematic images and see themselves as part of films, thus, they try to provide dramatic images to the public and get the public gaze instead. Thus, modern people inevitably become slaves of the optic. Ballard shows, through Vaughan’s failure to die with Elizabeth Taylor, that the dream to be famous in control societies is hard to achieve and even meaningless. However, the author contrasts ordinary people, who gather to see the crash site, with Vaughan, who causes the crash. These contrasting images suggest some hope in Vaughan who enjoys the maximum freedom, while majority of modern human beings in control societies passively desire to see his crash.

전기화학적으로 자가도핑된 Nb₂O<SUB>5</SUB> 나노튜브구조체를 이용한 광전기화학적 수처리 연구

황은주(Eunju Hwang),김현정(Hyeonjeong Kim),조강우(Kangwoo Cho) 대한환경공학회 2020 대한환경공학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2020 No.11

실제와 상상 사이 -뉴욕의 지하공간과 제니퍼 토스의『두더지 인간들』

황은주 ( Eunju Hwang ) 영미문학연구회 2013 안과 밖 Vol.0 No.34

This essay attempts to prove that Jennifer Toth(re)presents the tunnels beneath New York City as a real-and-imagined space and how the space is depicted as a heterotopia, a counter-site of the city on the surface. The tunnels are also the space where the capitalist system is deterritorialized and reterritorialized. In contrast with the capitalist way of life on the surface, the “mole people” choose (or, are “forced” to choose) squatting over property ownership, panhandling over wage labor, and recycling over production for their means of life.

불행의 연대와 할렘의 퀴어 공간 : 블레어 나일즈의 『스트레인지 브라더』

황은주(Hwang, Eunju) 한국외국어대학교 외국문학연구소 2021 외국문학연구 Vol.- No.83

이 논문은 1931년 출판되어 2002년까지 여러 차례 재판 발행이 되었음에도 불구하고 비평계의 관심을 받지 못한 블레어 나일즈의 『스트레인지 브라더』를 소개하고 마크의 불행을 통해 이성애 규범적 사회의 행복대본의 억압과 기만이 드러나는 방식을 분석한다. 마크는 성장하면서 남성 중심적이고 이성애 규범적인 사회의 가치관을 내면화하고, 전통적인 남성성에 대한 선망과 자기혐오때문에 결국 불행해진다. 하지만 그의 불행은 젠더와 섹슈얼리티의 차이를 넘어 이성애자 여성 준과의 연대를 가능하게 한다. 반면, 『스트레인지 브라더』는 인종 차이를 넘어선 연대의 가능성을 배제하는 한계를 보인다. 할렘에 대한 민족지학적 소설이라는 당대의 평과 달리, 나일즈는 백인들이 보고 싶어 하는 할렘의 모습을 백인의 눈으로 그렸으며, 흑인 인물들, 나아가 할렘 자체를 완전히 타자화시킨다. 주인공 마크의 성정체성에 대해 알고 받아들이며 할렘의 안내자가 되는 친구 케일럽과의 관계도 케일럽이 거의 무성적이라고 할 만큼 그의 섹슈얼리티가 가려져 있기 때문에 가능하다. 할렘의 퀴어 공간은 익명성을 좇아 할렘을 방문하는 백인동성애자들의 해방구로 그려지지만 실제 할렘 사회 내부의 복잡성이 모두 제거된 채 왜곡·과장되었다. This article considers Blair Niles’s Strange Brother (1931), focusing on how the main character Mark’s internalization of “happiness scripts” central to heteronormative society produces his dire unhappiness. While the novel does suggest that solidarity can nonetheless be formed beyond the differences in gender and sexuality, its racial differences remain intractable, as Niles otherizes both particular black characters and Harlem itself. As a result, miscegenation emerges in the novel as a more extreme taboo than homosexuality, and Caleb can become Mark’s friend only because Caleb’s sexuality is obscured. Ultimately, the queer space of Harlem appears as a haven/heaven for white visitors, as the novel abstracts it from its racial context, ignoring its complex relationship with the rest of Harlem.

문학을 통한 작문 교육, 작문을 통한 문학 교육

황은주(Eunju Hwang) 한국영미문학교육학회 2010 영미문학교육 Vol.14 No.1

This article introduces a course designed to utilize literature in teaching students how to create autobiographical essays, autobiographical fictions, photo scribes, and autobiographical videos. Various literary texts that range from Benjamin Franklin to Luc Sante, or from Emily Dickinson to Leslie Marmon Silko, help students in every stage of their writing from invention to stylistic refinement. At the same time, this course shows how to use creative writing to engage students more actively in reading activities in literature classes. Students lea a to read as writers and csaylea a aylot about the assigned readings that could be overpassed if they were reading just as rtudens. Ia this course, students could lea a about the relationship betweea fact and autobiographical trubouthrough writing their own autobiographical essays and fictions and attained a deep undenstanding of autobiography as a geare. Obsenving the formation of their own identities, they lea aed about the characteristics of identity, an important noents coustudying literaturetionsyadiso bf ame a identrtudens who do not just consume literature but read critictobytionsir noents writing skiobi were diso improved; students who had advanced or intermediate skiobi before the course showed improvement couboth a cura se, stproficiency, and students who had low skills from the beginning did not show much progress in accuracy but showed improvement in proficiency.

Project-Based Learning with MATLAB, Simulink and Target Hardware

Eunju Hwang(황은주) 대한기계학회 2016 대한기계학회 춘추학술대회 Vol.2016 No.4

수산화마그네슘의 녹조 제어 및 저질 개선 효과 연구

현은주 ( Eunju Hyun ),유영환 ( Younghwan Yu ),조계홍 ( Kyehong Cho ),안지환 ( Jiwhwan Ahn ),황대주 ( Daeju Hwang ) 한국물환경학회(구 한국수질보전학회) 2018 한국물환경학회·대한상하수도학회 공동 춘계학술발표회 Vol.2018 No.-