김수영 시에 나타난 성(性)과 병(病)의 상징성 연구 - 융 개성화 이론을 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the methods of embodying shadows in Kim Soo-young’s poetry. According to Jung, ‘shadow’ is a personality hidden in the human unconscious, which should not be suppressed or hidden, but should be kept in harmony and balance with the conscious. In other words, it is an essential element for physical and mental stability and healthy life. ‘The positiveness of desires’ in Kim Soo-young’s poetry revealed in preceding studies is analyzed as an important base for the formation of a bond of sympathy with readers. In this sense, the researcher focused on the introverted, object-oriented and confessional tendencies of the poetic subjects embodied in Kim Soo-young’s poetry. In concrete, this study examined the significance of embodiment in his works that embodied fundamental human issues, ‘sex’ and ‘disease’ as motifs. In his poetry, even ‘the same object’ is sometimes classified by ‘a different poetic language,’ and even ‘the same poetic language’ implies multiple layers of meaning and forms a poetic tension in order to embody a poetic subject as a being in the boundary between consciousness and the unconscious, that is, in-between. This, in other words, implies the positiveness of the embodiment of shadows, which proves that his poetry aims at the general principle of self-realization. In other words, in Kim Soo-young’s poetry, the shadows of ‘sex’ and ‘disease’ are analyzed as a driving force that cuts across the meanings of ‘negation’ and ‘presence’ and proves the ‘human nature’ and ‘existence’ in depth.