정신분석적 접근을 통해 본 셰익스피어의 「한 여름밤의 꿈」 = A Psychoanalytic Study of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is to show the legitimacy and force of psychoanalysis when imported into the study of literary texts, and of Shakespeare's texts in particular. We can think of a convergence of psychoanalysis and literary criticism because there is some correspondence between literary and psychic process, that aesthetic structure and form must coincide with the psychic structures and operations they both evoke and appeal to. In its use of Freudian analytic tools, traditional psychoanalytic approaches didn't provide us the dynamic models of psychoanalysis that can move us beyond the static formalism of structuralist and semiotic narratology In order to conceive the relationship of psychoanalysis to literary discourse, I looked toward a concept of the transference and the potential space as it is constituted between analysand and analyst in clinical practice and adapt them to Shakespeare's texts.
The psychoanalytic approach to Hermia's dream in A Midsummer Night's Dream is based on a psychology closer to that of the consulting room than to the increasingly abstract psychologies in contemporary literary theory. It shows us not only the inescapability of the connection between textual and clinical psychoanalytic experiences but a 'subjective' reader-response criticism. It unites both a reader-centered criticism and a working psychology to account for the experiences of the reader.
By contrast, I focused on the interaction between the text and its reader or spectator in A Midsummer Night's Dream and used the analogy between the clinical situation of patient and analyst that is termed 'transference'. The 'telling-over' we experience in the theater is compared to the transferential relationship, in which in an 'as-if' situation, telling stories of ourselves and learning by 'playing' ways of communicating with ourselves and others.
I can grant a privilege to psychoanalysis in literary study in that the trajectory through psychoanalysis forces us to confront the human stakes of literary form. And I concluded that the study of human fiction-making and the study of psychic process are convergent activities and superimposable forms of analysis.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 들어가는 말
• Ⅱ. 문학비평으로서의 정신분석의 효용성
• Ⅲ. 셰익스피어 극과 정신분석 비평
• Ⅳ. 실제 비평-「한 여름밤의 꿈」
• A. '꿈'의 분석
• B. '잠재적 공간'의 탐색
• Ⅴ. 맺음말
• 참고문헌