마술의 변화와 일상생활 = (The) change of magic and everyday life

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the Contemporary Korean Society, Magic has been growing dramatically as one of the cultural icon. The size of Magic market comes to about 30 billion won, domestic population of Magic reaches about 2 million, the number of Magic club is more than one thousand. Magic is often found not only in the economical area but our everyday life areas.
The movies, dramas and advertisements based on Magic are being produced in recent years and we can enjoy Magic whenever we want at Magic Bar. From the elementary school to high school, a lot of school authorities form a Magic class as an after-school activities or an extracurricular activities. Lately we can have an encounter with some Magic institutes on the street and sometimes hear about the university department that teaches Magic professionally as well.
Compared to the last 10 years in which Magic was not doing too well like these days, this is a drastic change. However, there is still no sociological consideration about the rapid growth and alteration of Magic coming into everyday life areas. In this paper, at first, I inquired into the reason why Magic became in popularity and what this reason means. After that, I tried to analyse general mentality in everyday life of the magician and the audiences at the personal level when the magic is being played. Finally, I attempted to look into the sociological meaning of Magic in the Contemporary Korean Society by understanding the social psychological mechanism which makes our society demand Magic.
Magic is the action that realize a fantasy. It has an instantaneity of a fantasy which is the thing that modern people respond to. That is to say, it provides various factors that make modern people to get out from the alienated and lonely state of mind, even though they are alienated and fall into loneliness as Erich Fromm and David Riesman said.
What is the way of Magic enjoyed to individuals in reality? At the personal level, Magic provides a psychological comfort and satisfaction of self-realization. First, it shows vicarious satisfaction in response to someone's desire through the instantaneity. This vicarious satisfaction leads to a positive mentality and to an attempt that share it with other people by extension. Magic is used to a good tool that not only induces the change of character but also as a means to recover from personal underlying pain, sadness and loneliness and makes someone receive attention by himself, which brings about a swell of pride to him. And entertaining other people deepens the reflection and understanding about other people. Magic, as a means of active self-expression, become also an effective tool that express his political and ethical values. These positive energies of Magic get someone to increase the possibility of immersion, which leads to a self-satisfaction. But if this self-satisfaction is negatively expressed, the Distinction might arise by the medium of secret.
In the view of relationship, Magic, as an ice-breaker, may become the catalyst for entering into relations such as a couple, a club and so on. The accumulation of the experiences like this lightens the burden which comes about when someone get into new relation and instills his confidence. This is a quite meaningful result considering the burden from relationships and loneliness in the crowd of most modern people. Also it is able to induce some changes in existing relations as well. There are lots of cases in which the instantaneity of the fantasy of Magic, which may become one of their common interests that brings other generations together, resumes a conversation with each other and brings them to be in close. And it plays a role as a chance that reconfirms good relationship between a couple and friends.
Actually from the figures of Magic enjoyed by modern people 3 kinds of substances are confirmed. The first is Magic as a means of overcome self-alienation. The growing interest in Magic is one of the reaction to psychological emptiness and it might be the mirror of our desire.
The second is Magic as a means of overcome general alienation. Magic can take on a role to improve relationships because of the desire for human beings to express themselves in relationship, which is also connect with their self-satisfaction.
The third is Magic as active liberty beyond the alienation. The individuals regarding Magic as one of the amusements and their individuality are so active that can feel pleasant about something by themselves. We can imagine the existence of 'Homo Magus' who are able to realize dreams like they play a game between the 'Homo Dreaminans' and 'Homo Ludens'.
Even though the history of Magic is very long, it is distinctly needed to be considered as a new culture in respect that it is being enjoyed in every day life and gaining popularity. As a result, there are some modern people who require the fantasy of Magic actively. And an indication that someone desires to overcome psychological loneliness and anxiety in his life by becoming the main character instead of being left as an audience simply comes in sight. I think that we can discover a possibility to realize enthusiastic liberty via Magic.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 서론 1
• 1. 문제제기 및 연구 목적 1
• 2. 연구방법 8
• II. 마술의 이해를 위한 자원 13
• 1. 마술의 정의와 고유의 매력 13
• 1) 마술의 정의 13
• 2) 마술 고유의 매력 15
• 2. 마술에 대한 사회심리학적 접근의 가능성 21
• 1) 현대인의 심리적 피폐 22
• 2) 삶의 적극적인 재구성 가능성 26
• III. 사회적 변화와 마술 30
• 1. 과거 한국사회에서의 마술과 단절 31
• 2. 오늘날 한국사회에서의 마술 35
• 1) 도입기와 암흑기 36
• 2) 확산 준비기 37
• 3) 확산기 41
• 4) 대중화기 45
• 5) 구현 가능한 판타지의 층위와 변화 47
• IV. 한국사회에서의 마술 54
• 1. 마술과 개인적 차원의 심리적 변화 55
• 1) 심리적인 위안 56
• 2) 자기실현의 만족 65
• 2. 마술과 사회 관계적 변화 74
• 1) 새로운 관계로의 진입 촉매 75
• 2) 기존 관계의 변화 83
• V. 현대 한국사회에서의 마술의 의미 89
• 1. 자기 소외의 극복 90
• 2. 관계적 소외의 극복 93
• 3. 소외를 넘어선 적극적 자유 97
• Ⅵ. 결 론 105
• <참고 문헌> 111
• Abstract 117