버지니아 울프의 『댈러웨이 부인』에 나타난 멜랑콜리 정동 가치 연구 = A Study on the Value of Melancholy in Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs Dalloway

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This study focuses on the melancholic affect in understanding the symbolism of death, which serves as a central motif in the works of Woolf. As a type of the study on affect expressed through various terms such as sentiment, emotion, affect, feeling, the melancholic affect in Woolf ’s Mrs Dalloway constitutes a narcissistic structure where emotions, sensations, and perceptions intersect, each occupying its own space within the whole. In Holbein’s “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb,” Kristeva analyzes the ‘black sun’ of Jesus who, despite pleading for a response from God, remains unanswered. The melancholy of this ‘black sun’ is something we all experience within the narcissistic structure. What’s important to Kristeva is not just experiencing sadness due to being afflicted by this melancholy, but rather, for the individual who can look straight at this ‘black sun’ and confront what it truly is, it is from that confrontation that the ability for creation emerges. If, through affect, we come to perceive the real existence, we must also return to the everyday lives to prevent this phenomenon from plunging us into deeper darkness. Therefore, when Clarissa hears of Septimus’s suicide, she faces a crucial moment of reshaping herself anew.