《聊齋誌異》에 나타난 의학적 환상

Abstract

This paper explored the medical fantasies that appeared in Liaozhaizhiyi. While inheriting the genealogy of fantasy literature that leads to Chinese Zhiguai, Chuanqi and Shenmo novels, I have always thought that Liaozhaizhiyi has a unique sensibility that is different from previous fantasy narratives. Therefore, I analyzed what the special fantastic sensibility of Liaozhaizhiyi is and how it is created. And as a result, I learned the following facts. First, the medical fantasy of Liaozhaizhiyi was closely related to the medical interest of the author, Pusongling. Pusongling was weak from an early age and could not escape the pain of the disease throughout his life, and naturally became interested in medicine. He also published his medical knowledge as an enlightenment book. The medical fantasy of Liaozhaizhiyi was the literary expression of his actual interest in medicine. Second, in Liaozhaizhiyi medical fantasies combined daily life in which people were sick and healed with surreal fantasies by the author's imagination, so it was expressed as a world where reality and fantasy were mixed. Pusongling, who had seen people suffering from diseases in the outskirts of the country, featured characters such as dwarfs to organize the medical process into an interesting story. In addition, in Liaozhaizhiyi, the author interpreted mysterious diseases of unknown cause as inhuman beings or supernatural forces such as God's curse, sleeping with ghosts, and longing for lovers. And he recalled in his work the old magical imagination that it could be controlled by the power of medicine or medicine. Liaozhaizhiyi shows that in ancient societies where scientific thinking was not yet absolute, it was natural for sorcery to perform the function of judging and interpreting social phenomena and causes of diseases. Finally, Liaozhaizhiyi showed how the literary device called "medical illusion" serves various functions to satisfy physical deficiencies and comfort psychological frustration, with intellectual brains, beautiful appearance, and strong physical function being the object of desire.