『베니스의 상인』: 안토니오의 멜랑콜리와 동성애
Antonio’s Melancholy and Homosexuality in The Merchant of Venice
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This essay examines why Antonio in The Merchant of Venice is melancholy, with the framework of Renaissance melancholy and Sigmund Freud’s concept of melancholia. By analyzing Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), I would argue that renaissance melancholy, which is understood as the result of an imbalance of humoral fluids, indicates desire as the reason behind melancholy. This connects the historical approach to psychoanalysis and proves that Antonio is not a passive person, but an active person who has no choice but to express his homosexual desire with renaissance amity. It emphasizes the character’s body as a site in which his homosexual desire is physicalized. This proves that historical approach and psychoanalytic analysis do not exclude each other and that pathological human body can function as a social criticism of the early modern England. Antonio is a melancholic figure who incorporates Bassanio into his own identity when he fails to mourn his love.
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This essay examines why Antonio in The Merchant of Venice is melancholy, with the framework of Renaissance melancholy and Sigmund Freud’s concept of melancholia. By analyzing Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), I would argue that renaissance melancholy, which is understood as the result of an imbalance of humoral fluids, indicates desire as the reason behind melancholy. This connects the historical approach to psychoanalysis and proves that Antonio is not a passive person, but an active person who has no choice but to express his homosexual desire with renaissance amity. It emphasizes the character’s body as a site in which his homosexual desire is physicalized. This proves that historical approach and psychoanalytic analysis do not exclude each other and that pathological human body can function as a social criticism of the early modern England. Antonio is a melancholic figure who incorporates Bassanio into his own identity when he fails to mourn his love.
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