韓國 近代女性小說에 나타나는 基督敎的 經驗의 히스테리적 변용 양상

Abstract

Aspect of Hysterical Transformation of Christianity Experience in Modern Korean Female Novels Shin, Soo-jeong Modern korean novels written by Korean female writers during the early period represented by such writers as Na, Hye-seok, Kim, Il-yeob, Kim, Myeong-soon are actually quite connected to the writers' Christianity experience during their childhood. Whilst Christianity is recognized by such writers as a diffuser of new ideologies and a tool for enlightenment expressed in a metaphor of “light”, it also works as a type of horror mechanism as expressed in the image of “a father threatening with hell fire.” Although this sense of horror structures the surface of texts with an aspect of the super-ego of martyrdom that internalizes a fatherly will, unconscious aspects not reflected in this super-ego are sometimes perceived from the depths of texts. That is the hysterical aspect accompanied by physical paralysis and hallucination. According to recent feminism theorists, this hysteria may be a psychological message translated in a physical expression. That is, through such hysteria, feminine unconsciousness suppressed by a patriarchy has acquired another means of expression, i.e., a physical sign, that is completely different from the language. Therefore, it can be said that the hysterical aspect expressed in Korean modern female novels is a symptom showing the female writers are overturning the male illuminism from the depths of texts and a possibility of feminine discourse.