보수주의와 T. S. 엘리엇

• 영문명: T. S. Eliot’s Conservatism: A Psychological View
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 조병화
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제23권 제1호, 121~148쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.06.30

영문 초록

So obvious are T. S. Eliot’s conservative tendencies that the only valid question about his politics seems to be how conservative he was. He declared his own position so in religious, political and literary sides, and most of his literary works support this position quite positively. But The Waste Land and his other early works carry some elements which suggest the poet’s sympathy to liberal causes. His well-known literary theories and techniques including ‘objective correlative,’ ‘union of sensibility,’ and ‘collage’ also reflect Eliot’s belief in reason. This advocacy of reason is parallel with liberal and democratic tenets against which Eliot showed overt abhorrence. Psychologically Eliot can be seen to be on the stage of alienation around the time of the composition of his early works including The Waste Land. One is necessarily subject to the drive to move away, at a stage of growth, from the mother or the world one used to belong to in one’s initial phase of life. Eliot gives in to the transcendental in Four Quartets and Ash-Wednesday, suggesting he has returned to the dominance of the mother in infancy. It is questionable how Eliot looked at the difficulties of the underprivileged then suffering from the world order he supported with his increasingly conservative outlooks.

목차

1. 보수주의와 엘리엇

2. 보수주의: 심리학적 접근

3. 엘리엇의 보수성과 반보수성

4. 결론을 대신해서

키워드

근대성 무의식 보수주의 어머니원형 이성 진보주의 아니마 modernity the unconscious conservatism mother archetype reason anima