앙리 미쇼(Henri Michaux)의 환각제 실험을 통한 심연의 탐험 = Henri Michaux's exploration of gulfs by the experimentation of the hallucinogenic drug

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is to clarify the nature and the meaning of a series of experimentation done by the hallucinogenic drug that Henri Michaux had attempted for over ten years from 1956. Despite the dangers which hallucinogenic drug may involve and its vulgarity which drug can evoke could not be an ethical evaluation on the consumption of white powder, nor a remark on the possibility that the drug could have in social function such as fascinating, strange, and divine power, for which we could find in Dionysian feast. We know that Henri Michaux is a man who pushes to the end. even to the extreme like as we verify, his quests during all his life was just one, and that was the question of Being. Thus, his drug experiments signifies his former attempts had failed or did not provide a satisfactory result. At the same time, this must be made in a different way. In fact, Michaux tries different hallucinogenic drug, like as L.S.D., hashish, mescaline and psilocybine, separately alone or miced, in a variable dose, not to enjoy, but to surprise the hidden mystery of mental system.
The drug, by his modifying power, permits experimenter to catch a glimpse of the functional mystery of human's mental system. Under the effect of drug, the idea does not exist as a tangible substance, but as a process of a continuous, never-ending montage. So, is the nature of the thing always clear and transparent? What is the thing possesses by the essence itself, that's his original opacity and unstability. In the ordinary life men needs the fixed form to hold the meaning and to act only. That's to say that men tend to be a subject to the concept of utility. From this, the term become as the use. The word acts in a same way-unites with each other, imprison within an over-rigid meaning or definition. Even though the principle of language escapes from the rule, the language is a subject as well. So this is where the problem lies.
A man in Poddema dies by his own word. Michaux sometimes hate the writing because it leaves many meaning behind. If the experience was under the effect of the drug in where the meaning and the word never meet due to the difference of their appearing sppearing speed is an abnormal situation, would the world of wsage of language where the word, locking and dominating the thing as normal? Therefore, the poet gas to liberate the language from gis limited usage, and set him free to make continual exchange between the words and its meanings as it could possibly be.