유럽신화문학과 통합유럽 정체성의 문화적 형성

Abstract

This paper focuses on the cultural formation of European Identity in the context of European Integration. We know that The Maastricht Treaty established "European citizenship" and "encouragement of European cultural creativity" in order to strengthen European consciousness. But the concepts such as European Citizenship and European Culture outlined in the Treaty are controversial especially in relation to actual transformation of European identity affected by immigration. So we think that it is necessary to research a more fundamental perspective regarding the conception of identity to give the European Union a higher degree of socio-cultural cohesion. That's why we are interested in the ancient histories presented by European literature of myth, where we can observe archetypal formation and transformation of diverse identities. Reflecting some of the issues raised by actuality such as European Enlargement, Integration, and Citizenship, we move to an exploration of individual and group identities such as Odysseus, Europe, Anna Perenna and Terentius who became roman citizen author from foreign slave in the past. So we know that, in the world symbolized by god's histories, the ethnic or geographical identity was neither normal nor natural unlike today. Latin culture is not simple replica of Greek culture. It is an identity of fusion that could make compatible contradictory cultures, for instance, hellenism and hebraism. Also, through observation of epic poems in the middle age such as "Song of the Nibelungens", "Edda", "Song of Roland", we find specific moral values that could integrate hellenism and hebraism to their own culture without conflict and contradiction. But that's not all. This amazing imagination of middle age identity presented in Northern European Myth teaches us a way of integration that can accept even Asian identity such as the case of Attila.