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A Study of Pathological Aesthetics in Park Bong-Woo’s Poetry in Jeonju Period

Moon, Shin 1

1우석대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article examines the pathological aspects of excessive historicalconsciousness and lack of ethical consciousness in the poetry of ParkBong-woo's Jeonju period. Poems that reveal hyper aesthetics are worksrelated to historical epistemology, and poems that show hypo are relatedto his ontological problem suffering from mental illness. Park Bong-woo has been raising the issue of division since the earlytimes, embodying the image of socio-historical ethics into the image ofblood at the border symbolized by the DMZ(휴전선). However, ParkBong-woo's self-consciousness was insufficient to handle hyper ethics. Although socio-historical ethics should be derived from life, Park's lifelacked the ethics of the living people to support his hyper of ethics. Indeed, Park Bong-woo, who lived in Jeonju, lived in an autistic state. In this way, Park Bong-woo's poetry shows his pathological symptomsin a way that hyper or hypo short of normality. In this process, ParkBong-woo shows a romantic admiration for the “other world” rather thanthe real world. In this sense, Park's pathological aesthetics are related tohis romantic attitude.

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