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Mourning and the Ghost: Literature as a Ghost
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애도와 유령: 유령으로서의 문학

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Academic journal
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LeeMi-Sun (경희대학교)
Journal
한국비평이론학회 비평과이론 비평과이론 제24권 제1호 KCI Accredited Journals
Published
2019.1
Pages
31 - 52 (22page)

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The purpose of this study was to review various discussions on the ghosts in Shakespeare's plays, especially the ghost of Hamlet's father and define the role of literature based on Jacques Derrida's deconstructive interpretation of the ghost and Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic explanation about the ghost. Derrida defines the ghost as the revenant and Lacan offers an answer the question why the ghost returns. According to Lacan, the ghost returns because of insufficient mourning. Mourning is the process of filling in the hole caused by the death of other people in the real with objet petit a and making desire continue. When mourning is absent or insufficient, the ghost appears in the hole and keep returning until mourning is sufficient. This study tried to connect the ghost with literature and define literature as the ghost, for literary works appear over and over again just like the ghost until traumatic experience of death is fully understood. Literature as the ghost shows us that there are gaps caused by death and loss in our world and asks for mourning in order to fill in the gap. When we define the role of literature as the role of the ghost, we can understand why those traumatic experiences are dealt with repetitively in literary works and think of literature from a new perspective.

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