에로스/ 타나토스 간(間) ‘내적 분열’의 양상과 의미 －최명익의 소설 <무성격자>와 <비 오는 길>을 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the aspect of the inner division between the Eros and the Thanatos revealed in the novels of Choi Myoung Ik. The Eros means the life instinct incorporating the sexual desire and the self preservation desire. The Thanatos means the death instinct evacuating the life instinct. The inner division means the phenomenon of pendulum movement that contradictory tendency generated from the same root goes and comes between the contradictory pole. ‘The inner division’ emphasizing on the movement is the more dynamic concept than the ‘both side feeling’. Furthermore this thesis analyzes the cause that the early novels of the self concentrated novelists often reveal the ‘inner division’. In the beginning, artists and novelists who have stronger desire than other people strive for the Eros, but they have to give it up because of the barrier of the reality. Soon they move the energy concentrated on the Eros to the Thanatos. Because the energy of the Eros is stronger than anything else so the energy of the Thanatos is also stronger as well. So the inner division between the Eros and the Thanatos comes out. This aspect may be necessarily derived from the hermaphrodite property of the Eros and the Thanatos.