Based on Slavoj Zizek``s theory about violence, this article examines ``An angry American man``, the text written by Jang, Woo-Jae. Zizek has divided the concept of ‘violence’ into some categories, subjective violence, systematic violence, symboli...
Based on Slavoj Zizek``s theory about violence, this article examines ``An angry American man``, the text written by Jang, Woo-Jae. Zizek has divided the concept of ‘violence’ into some categories, subjective violence, systematic violence, symbolic violence and divine violence depended on the concept of ‘violence’ in the theories of Walter Benjamin. In relation to these concepts this paper does analyse the backgrounds of main characters and does interpret their activities and their deaths in the play-text. And this study attempts to rethink about violence by asking questions about the various ideologies, ‘democracy’, ‘capitalism’, ``liberalism`` related to the violence of globalisation of post-capitalism, neo-liberalism system in the de-ideological, post-political era, after this post-Cold War. Especially this article does suggest how the objective violence, the invisible systematic violence and the symbolic violence have materialized in the work, ``An angry American man``. The violences are derived from the violence of global capitalism that are operating in collusion with liberal democracy. Above all this study explores ‘divine violence’ originated by Benjamin but newly interpreted by Zizek. It``s a similar to ethical violence of Zizek but it``s different from Levinas``s philosophy, ethics of the other. To prove this idea, this thesis examines differences between the death as a counter-violence against systematic violence and the death as a non-violent violence, in the former case it is called ``acting out``, the latter is called ``act``, ``divine violence`` breaks with the existing relations of the symbolic order. This article clearly shows that Zizek``s thoughts about divine violence are closely related to the ``ethical subject`` in Lacan``s psychoanalytical theory. This paper suggests resultingly the ideologies are present in the de-ideological era by focusing on divine violence as a way against objective violence in this era of lobalisation.