주체와 실재적 응시

The Subject and Real Gaze: Shakespeare's King Lear

The focus of this study is on a reassessment of the idea of the gaze and analyzing King Lear in terms of this gaze. King Lear opens up with the point at which the symbolic order breaks down, foreshadowing the disruption of absolute power by king Lear. In King Lear, when Cordelia's "nothing" in relation to the father's demand reveals the nonsensical status of ideology's master signifier, she does so from the real gaze that attracts Cordelia's desire to look beyond the conventional systems of sign and structure. When Cordelia experiences the gaze, it recognizes symbolic authority's failure to account for everything. In King Lear, it is Cordelia, the daughter with whom king Lear is erotically involved, who brings home to him the truth―inconsistency within the symbolic order, a dimension of transgression. It can be shown that the "objet petit a" such as real gaze emerges in Lacanian theory at the moment when the symbolic law no longer has the final word.