‘부재’의 감각과 미적 공동체 - 『질마재 신화』를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to disclose the nature of the aesthetic community, in which eternal-immortality is preserved and sensed in the Jilmajae myth, and to investigate the nature of modernity in the Jilmajae myth on the premise that Seo Jeong-Joo's eternality substantially signifies immortality. The Jilmajae myth is based on the extension of Seo Jeong-Joo's Shilla Planning. It is not eternality as a whole, but has been produced amid the interest in “cultural nature” that is able to possess eternality, or the “foundation” of eternality. Aesthetic matters were proposed as the only category that transcends reality and eternality in the Jilmajae myth, which was possible through the principle of integration, rather than exclusion. The sentiment of eternal-immortality possessed in the form of an image in the Jilmajae Myth was to connect through the sentiment of “absence.” This sentiment of absence is concurrently supported by the sentiment of eternal- immortality. The people of Jilmajae perceive the status of absence as a form of eternal-immortality, and live in possession of eternal-immortality through an alternate sentiment. However, the eternal-immortality of the Jilmajae myth is not substantial. The subtle possibility of cracks and erosion is inherent in the poem, such as the susceptibility of eternal- immortality to future uncertainty. Seo Jeong-Joo created Jilmajae, the aesthetic community that will preserve Shilla’s eternal-immortality and propose another aesthetic community that will preserve the fading Jilmajae in eternal-immortality. For such reason, the modes of mythology and oral statement have been selected. The Jilmajae myth illustrates the nature of modern subjects in pursuit of subjective certainty. Seo Jeong-Joo can be said to be the model of a modern subject in the composition of his own world, with the authority of the absolute order to take the reins. Seo Jeong-Joo, who was fascinated by the “power” delivered by the depth, rather than the essential depth, of Jilmajae, which Seo constructed in the poem as the world of secure freedom and an aesthetic community where the “outside” is unimaginable.