기후 부작위 극복을 위한 대안으로서의 에코신체적 패러다임

Abstract

In reading M. Night Shamalan’s The Happening using the framework of trauma, this paper reveals issues concerning people’s perceptions of climate change, and shows alternative ways to overcome climate inaction through exposing blind spots within the event-based trauma model of trauma. The Happening discloses the psychological defense mechanisms that make engagement with climate change difficult because of people’s abnormal reactions to natural anomalies caused by climate change, thereby enabling a more informed understanding of people’s actual responses to climate change. The Happening warns us that the vicious cycle of mutual damage to the human body and the natural world cannot be surmounted if we face nature’s aberrations using defense mechanisms. The ecosomatic paradigm adopted by The Happening as an alternative way to overcome this vicious cycle moves beyond the limitations of trauma theory based on a dichotomy between the human mind and body, and provides the potential for in-depth access to a more-than-human world and for taking appropriate action rather than remaining trapped within climate change inaction.