자기 몸 상해 완화를 위한 문학치료 -옐리넥의 소설 『피아노 치는 여자』에서 에리카의 내면 서사 분석을 근거로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the background that the main character Erica in Die Klavierspielerin(1983) as Elfriede Jelinek’s novel shows self-injury, compulsion, sadomasochistic behavior due to a mother’s repressive rearing attitude based on her internal narrative and to suggest a literary therapeutic alternative to this. The behavior that Erica harms her own body is being prominently described in four scenes out of the narrative. In the wake of having made an analysis on the basis of the narrative, the background in Erica’s this behavior can be known to have originated from the excessive attachment between mother and daughter and from the mother’s oppressive upbringing attitude. Hence, this study is aimed to propose the literary therapeutic intervention in it with clarifying the underlying cause of this through the internal narrative while regarding Erica’s self-injury behaviors as getting worse. Furthermore, as to Erica’s sources in self-injury procedures of being addressed in this study, for one thing, a failure in relationship formation, which failed to be made properly because of mother’s thorough surveillance and control from childhood to adulthood, is seen to have developed into sadomasochistic behavior. Second, Erica behaves in injuring her body owing to the impulse to take ‘ownership of her body’ herself. Finally, the self-injury behaviors that Erica demonstrates are complexly related even to depression or compulsion, sadomasochistic behavior, voyeurism. Accordingly, this study is made a literary therapeutic proposal on from where her these behaviors began and how these behaviors can be alleviated through parsing the inner narrative of the whole novel from Chapter 1 to Chapter 8 with regard to Erica’s self-injury behaviors. These literary therapeutic suggestions, namely, the ‘re-experiences’ by casting back the wishes that Erica has been suppressed since childhood are expected to be capable of becoming a significant case in understanding and supporting self-inflicted clients similar to Erica.