샘 셰퍼드의 작품에 나타난 부친 시해의 의미『성령처럼』, 『고 헨리 모쓰씨』,『말 못하는 혀』에 대한 정신분석학적 고찰

Patricide in Sam Shepard"s Holy Ghostly, The Late Henry Moss, and Silent Tongue

&nbsp;&nbsp;The absence of father is one of the issues most frequently visited by Sam Shepard; fathers absent from their home and wandering in exile in the desert are found in many works of Shepard such as Holy Ghostly (1969), True West (1980), Fool for Love (1983), Silent Tongue (1992), The Late Henry Moss (2000), and more.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Patricide appears, in his works, as just one of many strategies to make fathers absent even though it sounds an extremely unethical crime. In fact, Shepard&quot;s world seems to present profound perversity and uncomfortable strangeness to realistic eyes. We must understand that mythical and psychological stages are what he aimed to create not realistic ones since he tried to produce modern myths about those who psychologically struggle to cope with the symbolic world of modern times.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper analyzes Holy Ghostly, The Late Henry Moss, and Silent Tongue in order to argue that first, patricide is a symbolic death of the imaginary father; second, the murdered father and the murderous son can enter the symbolic order by the death of the father; third, an imaginary association with the outdated ideology of Eurocentric machoism is the other side of the fathers who identity themselves with and keep hold of the ideology.