블랙 스완(Black swan)의 상상, 상징, 실재 이미지

Abstract

Otherness has been an endless artistic expressional theme representing certain periodic paradigms. In Visual art media, especially film, otherness is often transferred to characteristic images in narrative context with various types of repetition and differentiation. As Jacques Lacan suggests in his psychological analysis, “mirror stage”, the first stage is the imaginary where one initiates narcissistic identity by excluding the otherness. The symbolic follows the imaginary enlightening person who comes out of the imaginary successfully only by accepting the social mandatory, so called, language system and law authority. Overcoming the limitless of expressional barrier and consequences of misunderstanding through images with narrative supported with cinematic style reveals imagination over “the imaginary”, symbolic gesture over “the symbolic” and reality once banned by “the real” structure. Darren Arnofski’s latest film <Black Swan> captures the moment of the world within mother who is alienated from what she is and her daughter who is depressed by her mom, “imaginary” by the phenomenal images with inherent narrative and styles. Therefore, he puts an anchor point on the floating differences that might have caused ambiguous literal meaning by “Arnofskian” images along with film’s inherent narrative. Allegorical images of Arnofski are the phenomenal imagination revealing frantic fantasies signifying psychological language of the subject.