情死-사랑과 죽음에 대한 근세 일본의 幻像

Abstract

The sex and the love appear in different forms in accordance with political, legal, social and cultural environment of the time. The scenery of the love in the early modern times in Japan showed explosive admiration and indulgence for the sexual love in various urban entertainment venues. However, the paternalist family system which became more concrete was suppressing and persecuting the sex even more. In such contradictory social environment, the crippled sexual love culture and the misfortunate love affairs were born, and these derived double suicides boomed. At first this article grasps the real image of the love suicide as social phenomena, and, in order to clarify the essence of the modern culture of sex affairs, pays attention to double suicide culture in the pleasure space in the early modern times based on "the male homosexuality size mirror" published in 1678. Here, the double suicide shows the process in which a man and a woman in a love affair, exchange of pledges, remove their fingernails, cut off their fingers, and finally throw away their lives to prove their love. Double suicide namely the love suicide is the final destination of a process in which one maximize his or her suffering for love. In the love culture that became the commercialized sex and entertainment, the early modern love was taken in a game of the death called the double suicide. The early modern culture quickly caught such social phenomena, and created the drama of love and death rare in world literary art history. The clearly clammy bloody image appearing in a double suicide drama of Monzaemon Chikamatsu amplifies the strong and sensual image and enhances it upto the aesthetic level. And, it agitated early modern youth with strong temtation. The love suicide as the realization of tempting death is regarded as the ultimate end of mysterious masochistic trend that Freud asserted. The violent wind of the love suicide blowing out in the early modern times was Eros's galloping toward Thanatos, the intrinsic desire toward death. The early modern Japanese literary art affirmed and praised the physical and sensual human desire, and at the same time was gazing at deficiency, anxiety, and violence derived from it. Additionally, through the innate desire of love and death, the question of "what a human being is" was ceaselessly asked.