The reason to use the theories of Freudianism as a methodology to approach literature is came from the similarity that both of them are for unconscious realm in human. This paper discusses the poet Lee Soo Ik`s poetry book and his twelve books of anth...
The reason to use the theories of Freudianism as a methodology to approach literature is came from the similarity that both of them are for unconscious realm in human. This paper discusses the poet Lee Soo Ik`s poetry book and his twelve books of anthology of poetry. His works are divided into each period, the early period, the middle period, and the latter period in order to analyze his poetic imagination flowing through his works by psychoanalysis. First, the early works in chapter 2 starts from his literary career until he went up to the capital in 1980. It focuses on the narcissistic desire and thanatos meditation activity expressed during the period. The middle phase in chapter 3 is about the works in 1980`s. The poet focused on relation consciousness he`d gone to great pains as a leading poet and a journalist in the society and as a father in his family. The later period in chapter 4 is about the works from 1990`s to the present. Unlike the former passive and stagnant attitude, the poet concentrated on ontological quest taking up a positive attitude. Lee Soo Ik`s poetry is a self-contentment for completion of beauty, self-construction for building and establishing relationships, and identity confirmation for existence research. It pursues the confirmation that he tried to build his own unique poem world while covering all these meanings, and he approached more perfect poetic languages matched to the world. This paper is expected to take a bridgehead position of Lee Soo Ik research so ultimately further investigation conduct deeper and wider research in his poem world.