‘불안’의 정동, 진리, 시대성 : 박인환 시의 새로운 이해

Abstract

This paper aims to review Park In-Hwan’s poetry through the analysis of anxiety. By this time, his poetry is regarded as a light sentimentalism. My study raises a question of its fixed idea. To do away with this stereotype, I pay much attention to overflowing emotion in Park In-Hwan’s poetry. Especially, I examine carefully the affect of anxiety shown remarkably in his poetry. His anxiety grew powerful during his tour of America. To find out the causes of this psychological phenomenon, this paper analyzes the psychological mechanism of anxiety and probes into the reasons that his anxiety deepened gradually during a trip to America. As a result, it is verified that his poems in 1945~1950’s and <the dirge on the 1950(1950년의 만가(輓歌)> are more important. Park begun to feels vague anxiety when he was conscious of failing the formation of self-identity as ‘new citizen’ in the early 1950’s. Since travelling to America, he expressed his strong anxiety. To be important is the meaning of representing such obvious affect directly. Park’ anxiety is an affective reaction when he was faced with the huge abyss of nothingness of the very essence of freedom in a difficult situation where he had to develop self-identity once again. In contradistinction to Korean’s collective unconscious in 1950s, to feel strong anxiety is to get an opportunity of making a choice whether he would become the subject of desire and freedom or a deluded hero on the stage of fantasy. So, Park’ sentimentalism must be considered as a cultural symptom of the times and a symbolic form of the écriture to require the various readings. Above all, Park’ anxiety represents a special affect of the generation of Park called ‘Postwar Generation’ in Korean literature. In comparison with of the sorrow of Kim Su-Yŏng and Kim Chun-Soo at the same period of time, Park’ anxiety is an signal of freedom and a rare example to show that he was placed in the basic situation in connection with desire of the subject. He sensed that too much freedoms had caused Korean’s anxiety and his poetry captured this psychological state of his contemporaries. Park’ poetry is reasonably valuable in that his poetry reflects the spirit of the age and the affect of his contemporaries. In this respect, a variety of emotions in his poetry is in need of careful examinations.