헨리 제임스의 현상학과「정글 속의 짐승」분석

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The modern novel evolved when writers like Henry James started focusing on the internal (psychological) action rather than the external action, thereby enlarging the realm of experience dealt with in fiction and bringing the novel closer to the pulse of real life. Likewise, William James’s concept of primary experience rejects the traditional dualism, and respects the situational context of life as a basis of cognition. In the context of the history of thoughts, Henry James’s phenomenological aspects are affected by William James’s psychology. In this sense, his concept of primary experience co-relates to the phenomenology. Ultimately, This study intends to analyze the influence of William James’s psychology in Henry James’s theory of consciousness and to elucidate its phenomenological meanings. As William James had vividly shown how truth really works and develops in our lives, Henry James showed vividly how our minds or selves really work and develop as we try to live in human society.
In the same way, William James’s ‘pure experience’ and Merleau-Ponty’s ‘primacy of perception’ commonly involve phenomenological perception. This analysis refers to Merleau-Ponty’s theory in so far as all phenomenological concepts start from it. The structure of “The Beast in the Jungle” as well as The Golden Bowl is grounded in a similar vision of human consciousness insofar as Marcher and Maggie begin their respective adventures by evading the limits that bind them. In his later psychological novels, after being exposed to different people, characters arrive at a transcendental apprehension with the phenomenological reduction to the thing itself. It suggests that his later works begin to pay attention to object itself. Or, more precisely, we can see Henry James’s interest shift from on the human-centered to on the object-centered.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 서론 1
• II. 본론 10
• 1. 헨리 제임스의 모더니즘과 현상학 10
• 2. 윌리엄 제임스와 메를로-퐁티의 현상학 38
• 3. 정글 속의 짐승: 사물의 순환 속에 숨겨진 조화 57
• III. 결론 85
• IV. Bibliography 88
• V. Abstract 95