인위적 거리 형성과 숭고 도달에의 실패 -최인호 「깊고 푸른 밤」을 중심으로- = Formation of artificial distance and failure to reach the sublime -Focusing on “The Deep Blue Night” by In-ho, Choi－

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In this study, based on Weiskel's discussion of the sublime, I would like to discuss the moment of fear and sublimity experienced by the two characters in Choi In-ho's “Deep Blue Night.” Thomas Weiskel explains the sublime by dividing it into the negative sublime and the positive (or egotistical) sublime. Weiskel calls Kant's sublime the negative sublime. The negative sublime is the displeasure caused by encountering fear or an incomprehensible object turned into pleasure by the action of reason. Weiskel argues that the positive sublime exists in addition to the negative sublime. The positive sublime is the work of imagination to fill one's emptiness, and the formation of a (not perfect) identity through it. Both sublime are achieved only through 'sense of distance' from the object/circumstance. The two characters in “The Deep Blue Night”, who tried to reach the positive sublime within the reality after forcibly creating a distance from the reality in which they were included, could not reach the sublime in the end. Therefore, they have no other option but to return to the reality from which they fled.