인문치료적 관점에서 바라본 식민 상황의 ‘알아차림’ -함세덕의 <동승>을 중심으로-

Abstract

A Little Monk(1939) written by Ham Se-Deok has a structural homology, by implying the similiarity of two characters' name: one is Do Nyeom who longs for his mother, the other is Do Nyeom of Koguryo who sacrificed his life for his country. To avoid the censorship of imperialist Japan under the Japanese forced-ruling period, outwardly this work appears to have a romantic․lyrical color. However, in its backside, there is a nationalistic color. Its surface structure is that Do Nyeom, who longs to live with his parent, shows an inappropriate behaviors owing to the unfulfillment of his desire, and then he discovers his own internal power by the warm and heartful support of Chobu and the widow, and finally he leaves the mountain temple to look for his mother. In other words, by 'the awareness' of his desire, that is, to live with his mother(parent), he starts to take a positive action to fulfill his desire. And by introducing the story of Eulji Mun-Deok of Koguryo which stands for the history uncorrupted by the force of a foreign country into the surface story, this work evokes readers to take back the glories of the past once again. Furthermore, this work solidifies the desire to regain the glories of the past by introducing the story of Jeon Bong-Jun, one of the national resistants, in the Japanese forced-ruling period. In short this work gives readers a message that even if we are now under the loss of the sovereignty, we ourselves are supposed to remind of our own uncorrupted history, and then we need to take a positive action to regain our sovereignty.