About Choi In-hun’s Revolutionary Prosecution and Inquisition

이 글은 최인훈의 청소년기 북한 경험을 통해 그의 신정정치론(즉 ‘정치적인 것’과 ‘신학적인 것’의 합성론)을 검토해 본 것이다. 북한에서의 ‘자아비판회’ 경험의 강제성과 그것에 대한 자발적 복종을 검토하면서(1장), 최인훈의 혁명검찰론=이단심문론이 갖는 정치적=신학적 맥락을 분석했다(2장). 그런 탈경계적 맥락을 최인훈 문학의 끝과 시작인 『화두』와 『광장』을 관통하는 문제로서 ‘거짓 그리스도(적그리스도)’에 대한 비판으로 달리 제시했다(3장). 그런 비판의 근원에 놓인 것으로서, 최인훈이 말하는 신과 사도, 왕과 신하, 교황과 이단심문관, 선생과 제자, 사령관과 병사 같은 구분된 이항들의 둘이면서도 하나인 관계를 이접적(離接的)―분리와 접합이 동시에 관철되는―평형운동의 관점에서 분석했다(4장).

This article analyzes Choi In-hun’s(1934-2018) political philosophy through his experiences in North Korea during his adolescence, which are presented in Whadoo(話頭)(1994) and The Square(1961). Here, political philosophy, to be precise, refers to theocracy, that is, the synthesis of the ‘political’ and ‘theological’. Choi In-hun’s theory of revolutionary prosecution=Inquisition, rooted in his experience of ‘self-criticism’ in North Korea(chapter 1), is set as the specific subject of analysis(chapter 2). This trans-boundary theme, which has not been well addressed in previous studies, is a political-theological problem that penetrates the Whadoo at the end of Choi In-hun’s literature and the Square at the beginning of Choi In-hun. Specifically, this is being developed as a criticism of ‘Messiah-communism in rumors’ and Antichrist(Chapter 3). As the source of such criticism, we will analyze the unified relationship between the distinct binomials that Choi In-hun speaks of, such as gods and apostles, kings and ministers, popes and inquisitors, teachers and disciples, and commanders and soldiers(Chapter 4).