원문정보
The Ethics of Silence and the Politics of Sensation: A Multi-Layered Psychoanalytic Study of The Zone of Interest
초록
영어
This study aims to examine how the sensory and affective structures of unrepresentable violence operate within the subject’s ethics and unconscious by conducting a multilayered psychoanalytic analysis of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest. Employing Lacan’s concepts of the Real, the gaze, the sinthome, and the ethics of psychoanalysis, together with Kristeva’s notions of abjection and the semiotic chora, the study performs a qualitative textual analysis that interprets the film’s key scenes as metonymic and sensory signifiers. The findings reveal that the film avoids the direct visual representation of disturbing images and instead constructs the return of the Real through sound, affect, and invisible fragments, thereby unsettling the conventional structure of identification with victims and shifting the viewer toward a position of unconscious complicity within the perpetrator’s everyday life. The filmic everyday is shown to function as a sinthome - like structure that sutures the ruptures of the Real, yet moments in which this firm suturing collapses expose the subject’s ethical failure and impotence on a sensory level. From Kristeva’s perspective, the film presents scenes of abjection that exceed symbolic processing and stimulate pre-linguistic chora - like affects, revealing repressed trauma through the viewer’s bodily sensations. The art therapeutic implications of this study indicate that the film’s use of indirect representation and sensory discomfort enables a safe distance and graded exposure to traumatic experience, while the pre-verbal affective layers of sound, silence, repetition, and bodily responses reveal mechanisms that can be connected to emotional expression, resistance, and the exploration of unconscious processes in art therapy. Moreover, this study prompts reflection on collective memory, ethical complicity, and sensory numbness, providing a practical foundation for developing group-based therapeutic processes that engage affect and sensory experience. By bridging sensory aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and art therapeutic discourse, this study contributes both academically and clinically to reconfiguring an ethical sensibility of the ‘here and now’ beyond conventional modes of representing violence.
한국어
본 연구는 조너선 글레이저의 영화
목차
Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. 이론적 맥락과 비판적 전제
1. 경계의 윤리, 침묵의 재현
2. 타자성, 공모, 윤리적 무감각의 사유틀
Ⅲ. 정신분석을 통한 영화적 독해
1. 그것의 메타포가 아닌 그것의 메토니미, 그것의 조각 – 실재가 드러나는 방식
2. 생톰과 병리적 일상의 정신분석적 구조
3. 응시의 정치학
4. 구토하는 주체와 정신분석의 윤리 – 실재의 파열과 욕망의 실패
5. 애브젝션의 미학 – 경계, 배설, 거부의 감각
6. 모성과 죽음의 경계, 그리고 윤리의 상실
7. 지금 여기의 책임, 실재의 귀환을 바라보는 감각적 윤리
Ⅳ. 논의 및 결론
참고문헌
Abstract
