기관 없는 신체로서의 폭력기계 알렉스: 들뢰즈적 관점에서『시계태엽장치 오렌지』읽기

Abstract

In the novel, Alex at the age of 15 is a leader of a small scoundrel gang with Pete, George, and Dim. His strong desire to get free from the prison gets him to have a curiosity of Ludovico experiment and to volunteer for an object of the experiment in which his undesirable violent disposition is removed. The experiment project is planned by the government that has proclaimed “Safe Society.” In the experiment, ironically, watching the scenes of violence and obscenity and listening to the classical music make him feel unbearable pains in mind and body. Accordingly, his violent inclination seems to be physically removed. When a huge government tries to bind Alex as an incarnation of violence machine, it is psychologically implied that the government incarcerates “schizophrenic” Alex into “Oedipal paranoia” state, in Deleuzian terms. However, deterritorial interpretation of Alex’s violence leads us to think that the limitless desire from his Body without Organs is like creative one flowing from youthful madness. Simply speaking from theoretical and aesthetic terms, therefore, Alex’s self-generating violence can be interpreted not as a violent and cruel physical power, but as a limitless artistic and productive energy.

In the novel, Alex at the age of 15 is a leader of a small scoundrel gang with Pete, George, and Dim. His strong desire to get free from the prison gets him to have a curiosity of Ludovico experiment and to volunteer for an object of the experiment in which his undesirable violent disposition is removed. The experiment project is planned by the government that has proclaimed “Safe Society.” In the experiment, ironically, watching the scenes of violence and obscenity and listening to the classical music make him feel unbearable pains in mind and body. Accordingly, his violent inclination seems to be physically removed. When a huge government tries to bind Alex as an incarnation of violence machine, it is psychologically implied that the government incarcerates “schizophrenic” Alex into “Oedipal paranoia” state, in Deleuzian terms. However, deterritorial interpretation of Alex’s violence leads us to think that the limitless desire from his Body without Organs is like creative one flowing from youthful madness. Simply speaking from theoretical and aesthetic terms, therefore, Alex’s self-generating violence can be interpreted not as a violent and cruel physical power, but as a limitless artistic and productive energy.