「댈러웨이 부인 」에 나타난 전쟁 트라우마

• 영문명: War Trauma in Mrs. Dalloway
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 강진호 Jin-Ho Kang
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제117호, 87~111쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.06.30

영문 초록

This paper tries to elicit and explicate war trauma in Mrs. D alloway in relation to Freud’s theory on traumatic neurosis. S eptimus, one of main characters in the novel, suffers from war trauma after he returns home, having witnessed the bomb-shelled death of his officer and close comrade, Evans, on the frontline during World War I . The typical symptoms of his illness such as hallucinations, nightmares, terror, dissociation, depression, rage, and denial reveal the existence of unassimilated, unintegrated and hurtful experience of the past. Freud argues that traumatic experience attempts to come to the surface through the compulsion to repeat and to be recognized; however it is destined to fail. I n the novel, S eptimus is victimized by war trauma and commits suicide because nobody gives him understanding and sympathy. D espite being a stranger, only Clarissa shows a moment of communication and sympathizes with his suffering and death at the end of the novel. Through the emotional connection of both characters Woolf suggests that trauma can be accessed and treated by sympathetic engagement among people; and the narrative construction of a work of literature can contribute to the reality of historical truth.

키워드

전쟁 트라우마 고착 반복강박 「댈러웨이 부인」 셉티머스 클라리사 서술적 구성 war trauma fixation compulsion to repeat Mrs. Dalloway Septimus Clarissa narrative construction