윤곤강 시에 나타난 죽음의 의미 읽기

초록

This paper aimed to take notice of the perception of death and the death drive from the psychoanalytic perspective based on the death images found in Yun Gon-gang’s works. Since his life and poetry writing, spanning the 1930s and 1940s, are defined as testimonies of loss due to external stimuli, this paper was intended to focus on how his figurative images of such situations at the unconscious level were embodied in his works. He does not embody death images merely as expressions of nihilistic perceptions of realistic repression and frustration or as decadent despair. When this is explored by borrowing from the psychoanalytic discussions of Freud and Lacan, it can be seen that Yun Gon-gang embodies death images as a journey to overcome realistic pain and endure sorrow, and that in extreme situations of frustration, he shows a melancholic self-consciousness that seeks to sublimate sorrow by identifying the object with the self. Furthermore, the death drive of the human being, as an organic entity, seeking to transform into an inorganic one is found in his works, too; through this phenomenon, he seeks to achieve ego equilibrium and, moreover, reveals an unconscious will for confrontation by expressing aggression toward external objects as a death drive. Meanwhile, it is understood that by pursuing the real order—which seeks to restore the pure archetypes of objects and things by aiming at the contradictions of the symbolic order—and by strongly expressing the image of the death drive that seeks to snipe at the symbolic order, he seeks to realize the integrity of the existential self once again.

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