『적』과 <사랑의 추억>에 나타난 남녀 정신발달상의 공통점과 차이점

Abstract

This study aims to reveal some things in common and differences in a psychological matter, that are analyzed in the whereabouts of a hero in Émmanuel Carrère’s novel Adversary and of a heroine in Ozon’s film Under the Sand. In particular, two main characters show tendencies of regression and fixation, so they are not free from a libido object in their past. In terms of the root cause of this psychology of reality denial that stops them from advancing toward life’s next step, its prototype already exists in the unconscious structure that is the reparation of the damage and frustration for a childishly loved object or the defense against the anxiety of being deprived. This unconscious psychological structure is due to the frustration of the mouth and lips represented by a weaned child and the anal frustration represented by the study of cleanness, and an Oedipus tendency is generated from this. This occurs at three to five years, according to Sigmund Freud, and around the end of one year or at the beginning of two years, according to Melanie Klein. This period corresponds to the characteristics of the pre-genital phase that are common to baby girl and baby boy. A boy mixes the desire to have a baby and an awareness of a loving tendency due to the feminine complex encountered by a baby boy. Therefore, the feelings about his own disadvantage are hidden, and he tries to overcompensate by the sense of superiority derived from the fact that “I have a penis.” This point is an unconscious structure e euated on the hidden e de of a hero’s lie and fraud. On the other hand, a masculine tendency that consists of one’s own overestimation is not observed in a heroine. Instead, the heroine’s behavior is characterized by complexity and confusion; ambiguous and uncertain emotion; and illusion and feelings built around one’s own world and internal objects.