A Critical Acception for the Life Force and the Meaning of ‘Dong-hak Revolution' －A study of the Kim Woo-Jin’s Wild Boar－

본고는 金祐鎭의 「산돼지」에 나타난 동학 모티프의 의미를 규명하고자 했다. 지금껏 「산돼지」는 東學革命의 文學的形象化事例로서 주목받아왔으나 그 의미는 瑣末主義的 한계를 드러낸 것 이상으로 평가되지 못했다. 또한 그의 죽음과 결부된 전기적 연구가 김우진 연구의 주류를 형성하게 되면서, 「산돼지」 역시 ‘母性 콤플렉스’와 같은 문제틀로 해명되는 경우가 많았다. 그러나 본고는 「산돼지」에서 東學을 다루는 방식이 김우진의 근본적인 사상적 지향과 긴밀한 연관을 맺고 있음을 강조하고자 했다. 더 나아가 그가 버나드 쇼의 生命力思想에 共鳴하면서도 그 한계를 논의하고자 했음을 밝히는 한편, 김우진의 문제의식을 이돈화와 같은 天道敎思想家의 思想과 同軌에 놓고 바라보고자 했다. 이를 통해 본고는 김우진이 個人의 內的生命力과 사회적 혁명이 긴밀히 관련되는 歷史的典據로서 東學革命에 주목하고 있었으며, 漸進主義的改良論과는 차별화되는 急進的革命의 繼承을 통해 ‘조선 청년’이 나아갈 길을 제시하고자 했음을 논의하였다.

This essay mainly studies meaning of ‘dong-hak' motif expressed in Wild Boar written by Kim Woo-Jin. Until now, Wild boar have got a lot of attention as a literary expression case of the ‘dong-hak' revolution. But it has been devalued because of flaws exposing the trivialism. As the bio- graphic study coupled with the suicide of Kim has become the mainstream of study, the theme of Wild Boar has explained in the same frame like a maternal complex, too. But this essay attempts highlight that expressing of ‘dong-hak' in wild boar was closely related with Kim's fundamental philosophic aim. This essay, futhermore, tries to prove that Kim not only agreed with the philosophy of life force derived from Shaw, but also wanted to treat the limitation of his thought, and puts Kim's critical mind side by side with the theory of the Cheondogyo philosopher like Lee Don- Hwa. In such manners, this essay emphasizes that Kim had a attention to the motif of ‘dong-hak' revolution as a historical evidence for connection of individual’s internal life force and social revolution, and tried to suggest the way forward for young people of Chosun through spiritual inheritance of the radical revolution which was differed from the discourse of the grad- ual improvement. So, Wild Boar is the drama that extended social vision more than auto-biological features of wrecked ship, and placed on the area of specific historical vision of cho-sun connected with the universal phi- losophy expressed by shaw.