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Abstract

In modern society, people came to live convenient and comfortable lives, enjoying much more material abundance than they did in the past, with the development of technology. However, due to the ills of capitalism, coming from the process of rapid industrialization, humans are tired of excessive competition. Modern people came to spend intimidated lives with tension and stress to survive in a competitive society. What weary modern people need physical and mental health. Thus, recently, an interest in health has led to ‘healing,’ The modern people, who need healing, that is, a cure, have collective or individual hurt. To heal these wounds, ‘healing methods’ are introduced to a variety of fields such as music therapy, art therapy, movie therapy and bibliotherapy. According to reading and writing theory from a healing perspective, it was found that writing therapy has positive values. First of all, it has effects as a tool for the promotion of physical health and mental health, positive self-concept, the promotion of a sense of self-respect, the improvement of social skills, self-management and self-inspection. Identification through reading and the experience of catharsis give readers the effect of mental healing. Moreover, since writing after reading helps one reflect and introspect one’s life and overcome problems, ‘reading and writing’ have a potential as self-healing. Based on this, this study looked into the possibility of self-healing, focusing on Lee Seung-ha and Choi Sung-ja. Poets Lee Seung-ha and Choi Sung-ja who suffered from emotional trauma in their childhood came to experience a life disconnected from the outside world because of their trauma. The consciousness of alienation from humans, denial of the world and negative experience like suicide exhausted the lives of two writers. However, the two writers overcame their different trauma through extensive activities of reading and writing about literary works. Consequently, Lee Seung-ha came to have a hope of dreaming the future by overcoming his trauma through extensive reading and writing, while Choi Sung-ja overcame her trauma in childhood through reading and writing confessional poetry. As a result of this study, it was found that reading and writing of literary works are effective for healing individual wounds and help one prepare the foundation of ‘reading and writing as self-healing.’