정동적 사유를 통한 멜랑콜리 연구

Abstract

This study focuses on the concept of affect while also analyzing Julia Kristeva's melancholia and exploring the meaning generated by the value of Melancholia through a theoretical approach. Kristeva sees the understanding of melancholia as a process that detects the primordial loss of human existence and further explores the possibility of sublimation. Human beings, in their essential aspect of existence, experience separation from the mother and encounter primordial sadness and loss. This sorrow of loss deeply resides within our inner selves and shapes the core of our existence. Affect is the generative energy of the subject that combines with the primal maternal, known as the ‘semiotic,’ which expresses nonverbal and non-logical bodily impulses. The melancholic subject initially tends to negate the negation of the mother, but later, through language, can find recovery and joy once again. Language is a tool that allows us to reclaim what has been lost. Ultimately, allowing and embracing sadness is an acknowledgment of our nature, and it is the driving force that enables us to live a truly meaningful life.