서정인의 초기 소설에 나타난 죽음의 문제

Abstract

Death is one of the main themes of modern novels. In particular, the matter of death has earned a clearer expression now more than ever before in existentialism. Indeed, this matter of death is the most important issue in Seo Jung-in's early works, which has rich existentialism. However, this study has attempted to be free from the attitude that suggests that death is only influenced by existentialism. The deaths mentioned in “The evacuation”· “Put on the costume”· “The day when waves were high” and other works are designated as a trauma. As such, this analysis about death requires further psychoanalysis. Especially, “The evacuation” needs to be further explained in terms of a critical psychoanalysis. These deaths, constantly emerging as trauma in the series of works, imply that the most urgent priority of the writer is to resolve this issue. Because death would be that others forcibly draw upon this experience as passivity. The writer presents that a natural death has a thread of connection with an eternal death. This death it can be in the perception of structural world. However, it has problem if the concept is an excessively simplified resolution of matter; death has yet to be overcome, though still shows itself through the darkness. If it is going to be, death pushes human life towards its destiny. The physical nature of death does not have the power to act can be superior to human being's life once life has become destiny. And life that focuses solely on destiny is inclined to be lived only with fateful pessimism.