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This essay aims to interrogate Lolita, based on Lacan’s desire theory, especially with his analysis on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Lolita should not be simply considered as a love object. She transforms from the object of desire to a love object, and becomes the cause of desire in the end. In the process Humbert is born as the subject of desire. In the first stage Humbert is under the control of ‘the Other’, since Lolita conceals her lack. As Hamlet is not free from his mother(the Other), Gertrude’s domination, Humbert is also trapped in Lolita’s domination. He must moves on to the stage of ‘separation from the Other’ in order to be the subject of desire. Humbert separates himself from Lolita through the ‘estrangement’ stage, finally realizing the lack of the Other. Throughout this process, Lolita transfigures from the object of desire; the Other, into a love object. As Lacan pointed out in his analysis on Hamlet, one needs to experience a ‘loss’ and passes an appropriate mourning stage to be reborn as the subject of desire in symbolic dimension. The mourning process is an essential stage to resurrect the order of symbolic dimension. Thus, Hamlet is reborn as the subject of desire while mourning Ophelia’s death. Similarly, Humbert is born again as the subject of desire, after losing Lolita and mourning it. At that moment, he finally steps into ‘his own hour’, being free from Lolita’s control. Meanwhile, Lolita who became a love object, returns to the position of ‘the other’ as an unattainable being. Humbert succeeds in becoming the subject of desire. In this sense it could be said that Lolita illustrates Humbert’s journey of finding his own desire.

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• 성경준 [ Kyungjun Sung | 한국외대 ]
• 이귀리 [ Guilee Lee | 한국외대 ]

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발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813