여성의 몸과 히스테리: 『대니엘 데론다』 = The Female Body and Hysteria: Daniel Deronda

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this article, I will analyze the psychological conflict inscribed in the body of Gwendolen through her hysteria In that the female body has meaning as a place where psychological conflict is inscribed in recent discourses of the female body. Besides the three episodes in Gwendolen`s childhood that suggest her hysteria in the first stage, there are three episodes wherein she can be insisted as a hysteric: her hysterical fit and paralysis before her marriage, the first night of her marriage, and the drowning of Grandcourt after her marriage I find the cause and symptoms of hysteria, the response of criticism and tolerance to hysterical patients, a return to a family recommended as a cure of hysteria, and the relation between hysteria and feminism in these episodes. Her hysteria in these three episodes, reflects the conflict between her desire of great achievement and reality (in the first episode), her fear of a destiny of women after her marriage and her conflict between her curiosity and her fear about sex (in the second episode), the conflict between her will to power and her frustration of this will, and one between her many guilty feelings resulting from her immoral marriage and her justification of this marriage as a right one (in the third episode). In this context, the female body is a place of symbolization in that the mind is inscribed and her hysteria shows the female body verbalized. The ending in this work seems to suggest a successful return to her society as an angel in the house by Deronda She seems to almost recover hysteria by her will to live and to be one of the best of women - and by her warmer attitude to her family. However, her hysterical response in this ending, is different from a successful return to angel in the house It suggests that the return of a female hysterical patient of excessive energy and intellectual desire to her family without financial and social alternative such as fortune and job, may not be a complete solution. Eliot draws the psychological conflict of Gwendolen through her psychological disease penetratingly, and then suggests that this return to her family is not always a complete solution through her hysterical fit in the ending This is the most important achievement that this work has in relation to the recent discourses of the female body and hysteria.