논문 : 무의식의 구조와 영상분석에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Structure of Unconscious and Visual Criticism

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This study is to analyze the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan`s thought about the unconscious and to analyze the movie, Vertigo directed by A. Hitchcock in 1958. According to Lacan, the unconscious is structured like a human language based on metonymy and metaphor. For him it means that the unconscious is composed of three orders that are the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. The imaginary is the world, the register, the dimension of images, conscious or unconscious, perceived or imagined. The notion of the symbolic is not icons but signifier like a language. The subject, in Lacan`s sense, is an effect of the symbolic. The real links to the symbolic and the imaginary. It stands for what is neither symbolic nor imaginary, and remains foreclosed from the analytic experience, which is an experience of speech. It is a non-signifying Other, the real, that exists as sedimentations within language which resist symbolization, remaining obscurely and intransigently material It is thus the place where the analyst can read the screen which is consist of man`s desire and symptoms. The purpose of this article is to present a general outline of Lacan`s theory of the unconscious and to suggest its relevance to the field of visual criticism.