음식기호의 媒介的 機能과 意味作用:白石論

Abstract

■ ABSTRACT Intermediate and Signifying Function of Food Sign: A Study of Baesuk’s Poetry Jeong, Yu-hwa This essay is aimed to explore how the mediating and signifying of food sign system works in Baeksuk's poetry through memory theory and psycho-analytic method. The food sign is a controlling agent in his poetic texts. At first, it is by imaginary code that he structures foods memorized in his childhood body. As special foods of seasons and holidays, those food signs of the code function as an intermediate between universal rhythm and bodily rhythm. Therefore, the imaginary self is to construct the monism world in which soul, body, and self are unionized into one through the food because the imaginary self seeks pleasure principle. On the contrary, the general foods in reality are structured in a symbolic code. The food signs of the code function as an intermediate of the opposite relations between the symbolic self and the outer world. Interestingly the symbolic self seeks the imaginary world  rather than the self-identity in reality in order to get over the dualistic world. The return to the imaginary world is to manifest the poet's  attitude toward  the anti-civilization, that is, the anti-imperialism.  And the foods in travel poetry of landscape are structured in a reality code. According to the code, food has a signifying function as it is connected to human body in a materialistic sense. Accordingly, food sign is an intermediate to link the past to the present and an individual to a history. In addition, it should be stressed that it is able to organically unionize the different consciousness of time and space that community people have as well as their bodies.