• Title/Summary/Keyword: commemorative struggle

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Anniversary for whom?: Approach of Lacan and Althusser about Anniversary (누구를 위한 기념일인가? - 기념일에 관한 라캉과 알튀세르적 접근)

  • Son, Seong Woo;Tae, Ji Ho
    • 기호학연구
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    • no.57
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    • pp.177-210
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    • 2018
  • This study, approaching through view of Lacan and Althusser, is focused on conflicts and struggles concerning anniversaries in our society. August 15, Korean War, March 1 and Provisional Government are selected as subjects of the study, examining aspects of commemorative Struggle and changing process to those subjects. Means of the study are used through theories of Lacan and Althusser.The result of the study is analyzed that commemorative Struggle set up a starting point as the early modernization in the late 19th century. In other words, influence of modernization, which has been built up with a high hand though Japanese occupation, caused trauma and cracks. And this has been generated social conflicts, joining with ideology and fantasy. Converged point of this is Anniversary. If Anniversary and commemorative Struggle were inevitable to be existed as a phenomenon about social memory in the past, willpower heading to future should be reviewed through those days, to fill cracks of the society, not to return to the splitting past.