Abstract
The signifier of sexual difference is always adopted in the Eastern and Western mythologies on the sun and the moon. This essay amid to discuss what femininity would be like as a subversive force to oppressing and discriminating society by reading four representative sun and moon myths of the East and the West: the Greek and Roman mythology of Apollo and Diana, the Norse mythology of Sol and Mani, the Chinese mythology of Nuwa and Fuki, and the Korean mythology of “The Sun and the Moon.” This essay analyzes the characteristics of the gender and power relationship of the sun and the moon in the four myths and interprets them through the theories of Jung’s archetype, Levi-Strauss’ structure and Lacan’s topology. Dialogically discussing the possibilities and limitations of each theory for the recovery of liberating femininity, this essay highlights the fluidity of sexual difference in the Korean mythology of “The Sun and the Moon” as a possible model for the new feminine ethics of inclusion and infinity.
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