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19세기영어권문학회 19세기 영어권 문학 19세기 영어권 문학 제13권 1호
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2009.2
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This is an attempt to read Bram Stoker's Dracula in terms of the two bodies, “baby brain” and “adult brain.” These are the diametrically opposing terms empolyed by Van Helsing, the leader of the vampire hunters, in order to describe in a nutshell the differences between premodern Dracula and modern English men. This paper is not, however, an explication of these two terms, but a theoretical exploration into their cultural implications. Behind this bifurcation lies the evolutionary logic of the immature premodern body being transformed into mature adult body. But the question remains about why not only Lucy and Mina but all the vampire hunters are so fascinated and enthralled by vampires that they scarcely escape danger of losing their humanity. They appear to have lost something indispensible for their happiness, something that is embodied through Dracula's “undead” body. This paper argues that modern men were forced to forsake their ontological unity (unified mind body) in order to be civilized: their body was split into the mind/body binary. And they are obliged to discipline their unruly body according to the rules of the reason and morality dictated by the society. The result is their alienation from body, their experiencing their body as the other. Where their reason is, there is no body and vice versa. Dracula represents the lost unity before their mind/body split, and modern men are easily possessed by him for they have not been modernized enough: they did not peel off their premodern body completely. While compulsively attracted by him, they are forced to drive him away from their modern world. That means fighting against Dracula turns out to be fighting against themselves, their mind against their body. Like Freud's “uncanny,” the lost body (the baby brain) the modern men (the adult body) left behind for civilization returns again and again in a repulsive and horrible form in order to claim them back.

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