신석정 초기 시에 구현된 상상계 연구

Abstract

This paper analyzes the early poems of Shin Seok-Jeong from the perspective of Lacan's Psychoanalysis. According to Lacan, the establishment of subject happens in three stages. The characteristics that appear in Shin Seok-Jeong's early poems match the first of the three stages, the one called the Imaginary. The Imaginary, a crucial stage in the formation of the ego, is based on identification and misconception. By equating him or herself with the mother, an infant child can find the perfect love given by mother at the time of birth. However, the identification is an imagined one that cannot come true. It is a Mirror image that helps to connect with the outside world. Through the mirror image, the child could anticipate the ideal and mature ego, misconceiving the mirror image for himself to gain unity, and at the same time, experiencing alienation because of the differences between himself and mirror image. Shin Seok-Jeong's early poems include two anthologies, "Candlelight" and "Sad pastoral songs", both of which were written during the period of Japanese colonization. The two anthologies are quiet different in character. In "Candlelight", a world constructed only through the subject and a mother figure is expressed. The Mother represents a transcendental guide, a companion, as well as a natural space where one could break away from reality. So the subject tries to escape from reality by equating himself with the mother. However the unconscious anxiety persists. In "Sad pastoral songs", young people act as mirror images. Through the displacement of misconceiving young people for himself, the subject dreams of revolution, and a social participatory ego is formed.