테드 휴즈 시에 나타난 불안과 멜랑콜리아

• 영문명: The Anxiety and Melancholia in Ted Hughes’s Poems
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 김혜영(Hyeyoung Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제126호, 1~22쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.09.30

영문 초록

This paper examines Ted Hughes’s poetry in terms of anxiety and melancholia; how he depicts his unconscious agony and how he overcomes the symptoms of depression which were caused by the suicide of both Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill. This paper will argue that Hughes’s anxiety is about castration, a kind of psychological trauma that repeats like an incantation in the crow’s words. Moreover, the effect of depression and fear, rather than the mood of mourning in his poetry, is mediated through the voice of the black crow. To elaborate, its cynical tone can be seen as originating from Hughes’s depression and feelings and self-reproach. Through his regressive attitude to avoid trauma, I can find his symptom immersed in the narcissistic impulse. Even though the narcissistic identification is an illusion of the imaginary, his narcissistic attitude is defending the suicidal drive by leaning on the fantasy that he is the ideal ego of the imaginary. Like a fetus in the uterus, he indulges in absolute stability and warmth, but Oedipus’s mother is also brutally murdered in his poems. The cruel imagination of murdering the mother can be a delusional nature of self-punishment. But by expressing these psychological pressures and tensions in a poetic language, Hughes could have endured the depths of depression. The fantasy represented in his poems can function as a barrier to the collapse of his identity.

목차

1. 서론

2. 숲속의 야만인과 불안의 징후

3. 까마귀와 우울증적 주체

4. 결론

키워드

Ted Hughes Crow Wodwo anxiety melancholia JacquesLacan Sigmund Freud