90년 전후 한국시에 나타난 우울 정동 고찰－함민복, 함성호 시를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the ‘melancholy’, the social affect which was reflected in the poetry around 1990 by examining the poetic responses of contemporary literature on the sudden political and social changes around that period. There are two major factors that influenced the social affect of Korean society which changed rapidly after the political system of 1987. One is discovering that the capitalism of late industrial society is becoming widespread, and the other is witnessing the democratization, which the 80’s have collectively desired, have ended as perfunctory democracy. Firstly, Mr. Melancholy appeared in the series of flaneur motif in Ham Min-bok’s One Day of Mr. Melancholy(1990) is a figure walking through the city of late industrial society in Korea. However, unlike the flaneur of Walter Benjamin, who aimed at awakening by looking at the landscape and the crowd, Mr. Melancholy chooses to be absorbed in the images of urban landscape, crowd, and advertisement, etc. The phenomenon of disorientation in the urban landscape and internal confinement of an individual in the post industrial society was considered as a disease called ‘melancholy’, which Ham Minbok regarded as the identity of the times. Ham Seong-ho perceives the society of that time as the ruins which the awaiting Messiah(Mireuk) is absent in The solitude of 5.67 billion years (1992). The era of the military regime of the 80s ended, but the world that people waited didn’t come afterward. This thesis discovers the mechanism of affect, especially the affect of melancholy which operated in a variety of ways due to the failure of political orientation and the prevalence of capitalist intoxication in the transition period by examining the literary responses of the times.