<만복사저포기>에 나타난 정서의 미학

Abstract

Major focus of this study is on the ‘sentiment’ in <Manboksa-jeopo-gi> speculated in the context of Korean tradition. To achieve the goal, cultural psychology that is the study of how psychological and behavioral tendencies are rooted in and embodied in culture is invoked. Aspect of how sentiments are shown were elaborated initially. As a result of an analysis of poetry, narratives, and dialogues where characters express their feelings, sadness, sorriness, and heartbreak of separation other than happiness were obvious. Based on the aspect, the meaning of how the sentiments are expressed were tried to be understood. Within the boundaries of cultural psychology, solitude, hesitation, and disappearance in the end were read and lead to the blooming mental endurance and relationship to which underlying Korean regret and affection are oriented. Korean mentality in depth corresponds with the narrative following the story, reveals the sentiment of characters and a reader, and realizes the open ending with so-called ‘not known how it ended’ type of closing that is aesthetics of disappearing. It was previously mentioned that this study is to clarify Korean sentiment and psychology in <Manboksa-jeopo-gi> with own theory, but it’s regretful that only a part of the work as an initiative was conducted. Also, invoking cultural psychology was not fully based upon firm scholastic background. To develop the agenda in depth, building a theory to use cultural psychology as a measure is left to following studies.