‘존재의 충만함’과 타자성의 문제: 『연애하는 여인들』의 어슐라를 중심으로
D. H Lawrence’s “Fullness of Being” and the Problem of “Otherness”: On Ursula in Women in Love
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This thesis examines that Lawrence’s term of “fullness of being” is a realization not only of one’s full being as male or female but of the true selfhood of both genders. It is the androgynous concept which can be applied to women as well, making their lives more profound and integrated through the sexual fulfillment. Even though Lawrence’s Bisexualism mainly focused on dichotomies such as maleness/femaleness, spirit/body, will/ sensuality and Love/Law stigmatizes him as an essentialist and male- chauvinist, his theory can be seen not merely as an appeal for fixed gender roles but as an active participation into a deep “self-realization.” This is because, by uniting both principles, they can realize a new and greater selfhood rising through them. In this perspectives, the heroine of The Rainbow and Women in Love, Ursula can be re-illuminated in a different angle. She is not the woman who abandoned herself just to remain as a foil to male characters. She takes more active and pivotal roles in the novel. She materializes the modern female, the trumpeted “New Woman” of the time, struggling for defiant self-definition who rejects all the conventional attachments such as family, nationalism, and even Christianity to be awaken as a real “living self.” She also achieves the integrated self manifested through the ultimate relationship with others, and struggles to step out from the disintegrated ways of life and enter into the glorious realm of “fullness of being.” This struggle to avoid submerging into the suffocating ego illustrates her profound yearning for restoring human potentiality and wholeness. Therefore this thesis mainly examines how Ursula and Birkin are transcended into “the fourth dimension, the heaven of existence.” Despite all the previous criticisms regarding her as a mere assistant to Birkin, she materializes the author’s voice calling for the essential rhythms of human life and “the transfer to take place in a living flow” in the text. Especially, Ursula’s ‘love’ helps Birkin avoid submitting to humiliating “Will to Power” and engenders a “creative strife” of self and the other. The trembling balance between the two seems to attain the perfect “star-equilibrium” at the end. However, the text as a whole still leaves many unsolved problems without any fixed notion of ‘closure,’ being wide open to interpretation.
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This thesis examines that Lawrence’s term of “fullness of being” is a realization not only of one’s full being as male or female but of the true selfhood of both genders. It is the androgynous concept which can be applied to women as well, making their lives more profound and integrated through the sexual fulfillment. Even though Lawrence’s Bisexualism mainly focused on dichotomies such as maleness/femaleness, spirit/body, will/ sensuality and Love/Law stigmatizes him as an essentialist and male- chauvinist, his theory can be seen not merely as an appeal for fixed gender roles but as an active participation into a deep “self-realization.” This is because, by uniting both principles, they can realize a new and greater selfhood rising through them. In this perspectives, the heroine of The Rainbow and Women in Love, Ursula can be re-illuminated in a different angle. She is not the woman who abandoned herself just to remain as a foil to male characters. She takes more active and pivotal roles in the novel. She materializes the modern female, the trumpeted “New Woman” of the time, struggling for defiant self-definition who rejects all the conventional attachments such as family, nationalism, and even Christianity to be awaken as a real “living self.” She also achieves the integrated self manifested through the ultimate relationship with others, and struggles to step out from the disintegrated ways of life and enter into the glorious realm of “fullness of being.” This struggle to avoid submerging into the suffocating ego illustrates her profound yearning for restoring human potentiality and wholeness. Therefore this thesis mainly examines how Ursula and Birkin are transcended into “the fourth dimension, the heaven of existence.” Despite all the previous criticisms regarding her as a mere assistant to Birkin, she materializes the author’s voice calling for the essential rhythms of human life and “the transfer to take place in a living flow” in the text. Especially, Ursula’s ‘love’ helps Birkin avoid submitting to humiliating “Will to Power” and engenders a “creative strife” of self and the other. The trembling balance between the two seems to attain the perfect “star-equilibrium” at the end. However, the text as a whole still leaves many unsolved problems without any fixed notion of ‘closure,’ being wide open to interpretation.
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