「아테네의 타이먼」( Timon of Athens ):여성 혐오의 관점에서 본 타이먼의 몰락

Timon of Athens : Timon’s Fall from the Viewpoint of Misogyny

This paper aims at exploring Timon’s fall from the perspective of psychoanalysis. Based on the structure of K ahn’s core fantasy, this paper analyzes the maternal bounty fantasies Timon holds in the first half of acts and the fantasies from maternal betrayal he sustains in the second half after Timon is deprived of his wealth by Fortune, finding gold in the wilderness. The maternal bounty fantasies Timon has are self-renewing and self-congratulating, and even he poses himself as an infinite nurturance, imaging his body as infinite wealth provider, but Timon’s curses after wealth deprivation include considering the female as the source of corruption, identifying gold with the bewhoring of women, misogyny and misanthropy. Through Timon’s fantasies expressed in the play, readers or viewers come to understand that he fails to achieve his male identity as well as the reason the play’s structure has two disjunct halves.