남성 주체의 결핍과 상실을 대리 표상하는 ‘사그라진 신부(新婦)’ -<첫날밤에 소박맞은 신부> 이야기를 중심으로-

Abstract

A bridegroom returned to his home leaving his bride in the bridal room on wedding night because of the trivial misunderstanding that she had made love to another man. After many years he passed by the house with the bridal room that he had spent his wedding night. When he opened the door of the room, he met face to face with his first bride sitting down just as what she had been on wedding night in the room. At that time, she vanished like ash without trace. This study is an analysis and criticism on the story of "the Bride Deserted on Wedding Night". The story has not only been read as a bride's tragic generally, but can also be read as a bridegroom's tragic from the point of view that the bridegroom, the subject of anxiety and melancholy was faced with his psychological lack and loss by finding a vanishing bride. The bride as an immaculate sexual object without deficiency represents the anxiety and lack of male subject. The sexual desire of male subject cannot be satisfied with forever, and the immaculate bride is object the male never hold his hand. The bridegroom as the male subject suffers a lot from the obsession by the sense of guilt that the depression of sexual desire is to cause. The image of 'vanishing bride' makes the bridegroom to be faced with his internal lack and loss. It stirs up the male’s anxiety and melancholy. For a long time the bride has been silent. She has not only spoken, but also has kept still. This silence presents that the event the bridegroom had deserted the bride on the wedding night is beyond description. The image of ‘vanishing bride’ represents an indescribability and an unutterableness of the event. The performance of narrative means the transference of memory and sharing of the experience. So the performance is to open the new way of mourning for the bride.