라캉의 욕망 이론에서 본 앤서니 브라운의 그림책 『고릴라』 분석 연구 - 등장인물 한나의 심리표현을 중심으로 -

In picture book Gorilla, the main character Hannah who wants to go to the zoo, and Hannah's always busy dad, and the gorilla who appears in her dream and takes her to the zoo unfold the story. A British picture book author and also the author of this book Anthony Browne describes Hannah's mind specifically through her dream and implies her lack and desire. The aim of this study is to analyze the psychology of Hanna, a character in Gorilla, through Lacan’s theory of desire, and to confirm the possibility that the psychological expression of a character can be discussed as an important issue in the creation of picture books. The inner side of main character Hannah can be analyzed through the conceptual understanding of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's theory of desire, along with Ferdinand de Sausure's linguistics and Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex. The narrative of Gorilla consists of a total of 15 scenes and the background is divided into a story in reality and a story in the unconscious world based on Hannah's dream. The events in Hannah's unconscious world become the central axis of the narrative of Gorilla, and in this study the theory of desire of Lacan is substituted and analyzed. The results of the analysis show that Lacan’s theory that the human unconscious is structured like language and Hannah’s desire expressed through her dream can be viewed and interpreted in the same line. This new perspective can act as a major role for the inner expression of the characters in the creation of picture books.