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학술연구/단체지원/교육 등 연구자 활동을 지속하도록 DBpia가 지원하고 있어요.
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연구자들이 자신의 연구와 전문성을 널리 알리고, 새로운 협력의 기회를 만들 수 있는 네트워킹 공간이에요.
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This paper attempts to explore the possibility of building affective community in capitalist society through a reading of Herman Melville's short story "Bartelby, the Scrivener." I interpret the failure of the affective relationship between Bartleby and the narrator in this story as the testimony of emotional dilemmas and impasses men in capitalist society experience. The inner feeling of Bartleby can be described as disgust, a negative feeling that the subject moves "away from" rather than "towards" its object, and that the subject feels when the boundary between its inner and outer worlds is confused. Bartleby withdraws himself from the capitalist social system epitomized in a small legal office in Wall Street in which he does not want to participate, whose social position he does not like to assume. His trademark statement "I would prefer not to do" shows his affective passivity, yet paradoxically this passive gesture becomes a strong resistant power preventing his assimilation into the social system. The narrator's various attempts to build a meaningful affective relationship with Bartleby fail because his feeling cannot overcome his self-interest; his pity, tolerance, charity, and sympathy for Bartleby do not transcend his self-love. Bartleby is the intolerable disgust which his self-love is unable to tolerate, and from which he eventually cannot but move away. The failed possibility of building an ethically affective community, I argue, is made possible when the subject tolerates the intolerable and sympathizes with the impossible.
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