Sim-seong Yeon-gu (심성연구)

Korean Society for Analytical Psychology (한국분석심리학회)
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An Analytical Study on the Apparition of Virgin Mary of Rue du Bac: The Virgin Mary as the Incarnation of the Divinity

뤼 뒤 박 발현 성모상의 분석심리학적 고찰: 신성의 육화로서의 성모상

  • Ki-Hwan Kim (Department of Dental Hygiene, Catholic Sangji College) ;
  • Jung Taek Kim (Jesuit Spiritual & Psychological Counseling Center)
  • 김기환 (가톨릭 상지대학교 치위생과) ;
  • 김정택 (예수회 영성 심리상담소)
  • Received : 2023.03.30
  • Accepted : 2023.05.22
  • Published : 2023.06.25
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Abstract

This paper examines the apparition of the Virgin Mary revealed in Rue du Bac, Paris, France, in 1830, from a perspective of analytical psychology. To do so, it amplifies the archetypal motifs manifested in the images of the Virgin Mary of Rue du Bac by introducing the medieval alchemical picture titled "Glorification of the body portrayed as the coronation of the Virgin Mary" from Reusner's Pandora (1588). This image of the Virgin Mary is full of archetypal motifs that show the process and end result of individuation, which is the main idea of Jungian psychology. These symbols that depict the individuation process, both in Reusner's Pandora and in the Mary of Rue du Bac, are expressions of mythologems, constituent elements of the collective unconscious. Jung noted that these mythologems are the ultimate base and matrix of all religions. Through examining the archetypal motifs, which appear in the Mary of Rue du Bac, the apparition of the Mary turns out to be the revelation of the archetypal image of the Self in a space-time continuum, which is constellated in the collective unconscious. That is, an archetypal figure revealed itself to a witness' ego-consciousness to whom a space-time continuum functions as a cognitive category. The Mary of Rue du Bac represents the union of the opposites of divinity and humanity, which lacks in the symbolism of the Cross in Christianity. In this regard, she is an image of the new savior, who opens the new aeon of the Aquarius. The revealed image of Mary shows that divinity originates from the inner realm of the human psyche, that corporeal human beings are the matrix in which the divine incarnates, and that human being is the subject of psychological redemption. The image of Mary awakens us to the value of divinity in the human psyche in the times when the spiritual values Christianity has retained declines drastically.

본 논문은 1830년 프랑스 파리 뤼 뒤 박에서 발현한 성모상을 분석심리학적으로 고찰하고 있다. 이를 위해, 중세기 연금술서 『로이즈너의 판도라』(1588)에 실려 있는 '성모 마리아의 대관식으로 묘사된 육체의 신성화'라는 제목의 그림을 전거로 삼아 성모상에 드러나는 원형적 모티프들을 확충하였다. 이 성모상에는 융 심리학의 핵심 개념인 개성화의 과정과 결과를 보여주는 원형적 모티프들이 집약되어 나타난다. 판도라 그림이나 발현 성모상에서 나타나는 개성화 과정을 표현하는 이런 상징들은 집단적 무의식을 구성하는 신화소들의 표현이다. 융은 이 신화소들이 모든 종교의 궁극적인 바탕이며 모체로 보았다. 발현한 성모상에 나타나는 신화소들을 살펴볼 때, 성모 발현 현상은 집단적 무의식에 배열된 자기 원형상이 시공간의 영역, 즉 시간과 공간을 인지 범주로 삼고 있는 목격자 개인의 의식에 나타난 것이다. 뤼 뒤 박 성모상은 그리스도교의 십자고상(十字苦像) 상징에서 충분히 표현되지 못했던 신성과 인간성의 대극 융합을 보여준다. 이런 의미에서 보면, 발현한 성모상은 물병자리 시대를 여는 새로운 구세주의 상이다. 성모상은 신성이 인간의 내면으로부터 기원하며, 따라서 육체를 지닌 각각의 인간이 신성을 육화하는 바탕이며 심리학적 구원의 주체임을 보여준다. 성모상은 그리스도교가 지닌 영적인 가치가 급격하게 감소하는 시대에 인간의 정신이 담지하고 있는 신성의 가치를 일깨워 준다.

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