《紅樓夢》에 나타난 賈寶玉의 자기실현

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to look for its deep meaning by analyzing <The Dreams of Red Mansions(紅樓夢)> through Analytical Psychology. The founder of Analytical Psychology, C.G.Jung believed that Self-actualization, effort integrating one’s consciousness and unconsciousness is the final goal of human life. This study showed the process of accomplishment of Self-actualization of the main character, Jia Baoyu(賈寶玉). Jia Baoyu was abnormally obsessed with the femininity and refused firmly the masculinity. It was because he was born with jade in his mouth. Jades representing the femininity deprived him of the masculinity and made him androgynous. The marriage of woman, in his aspect, was a depravity, the loss of purity. He experienced a confusion between being or not being in going through the incidents such as the last unhappy days of the Jinling’s twelve beauties(金陵十二釵), the loss of the jade in his mouth by birth, the death of Lin Daiyu(林黛玉) he loved so much and the loveless marriage with Xue Baochai(薛寶釵). He got the jade back and realized his unconsciousness and had the desire of self-actualization. He became clearly conscious of his unconsciousness through the prototype given to him in the moment of being confronted by his family’s ruin and by the death of the people he loved. As a result of finding this spiritual enlightenment, he became a bonze, that signifies the eternal reversion to his nature. The self-actualization of Jia Baoyu(賈寶玉) was completed in form of becoming a Buddhist monk. His family’s declining fortune opened his eyes to seeking a true life instead of living a false life in this world. He got on his own way to finding himself. The self-actualization is to realize that the present oneself is just “special person” and to cultivate constantly one’s mind.