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This paper aims to show how Ian McEwan attempts to transgress what Žižek called 'the Symbolic Order' focusing on the symptoms of English society and to explore the ethical dimensions embodied in Atonement. To substantiate my arguments, I depend upon recent theories of psychoanalysis and ethics, ranging from Jacques Lacan to Slavoj Žižek. I shall try to apply some key terms and views taken from Lacan and Žižek to analysing McEwan's Atonement. McEwan seems to traverse the fantasy of historical and contemporary dominant ideology. This is an area which has been largely ignored by many readers and critics. In Atonement, McEwan delves into the violent tendency hidden in historical English manor and some epistemological problems of the perspective taken by the upper-class members of the Tallis family. Besides, the ethical dimension embedded in the Briony's novel-within-the novel is an important area to investigate. Moreover, another dimension of ethics is McEwan's demystifying the history of the Dunkirk evacuation. Finally, I draw attention to how McEwan criticizes capitalism and Tony Blair's policy of selling English culture. McEwan emerges as an ethical writer in the sense that he constantly reveals 'the Real' excluded from symbolization in his times.
이언 매큐언, 속죄, 영국장원, 영국성, 영국 문화 정책, 환상 가로지르기 ,이데올로기적 환상, 정신분석학적 윤리
