오정희 소설의 트라우마와 치유

Abstract

This study regarded that the individuality of Jeong-Heui Oh's Novels is the trauma and the effective expression of it. Trauma is the mental external wound left after particular experience and frequently shows itself with various symptoms without being properly recognized by the subject. The core of trauma shown in Jeong-Heui Oh's Novels is the topic of 'death' with the background of Korean War. Texts present, centering around the experience of death, peripheral traumas like the absence of father, the poverty and lack, the alien and female life as the weak. Symptoms of characters include the bulimia, kleptomania and pretending to be dead that 'I', the heroine of 「The garden in childhood」, shows, the behavior of 'I' that keep stealing into her own space in 「The Chinese street」 and the repetitive leaving home and smoking by 'Eun-Su Choi' in 「The spirit of wind」. There are about three formal aspects of text to represent trauma and derivative symptoms effectively. First, the subject beard unrest and illogicality in communication that was expressed in the form of omission and inner monologue. The inner monologue represents the isolated language that was not expressed out. Second, free indirect speech was used. The free indirect speech helps deliver the delicate psychology of trauma situation where the voices of the narrator and the speaker overlap. Lastly, the trauma experience in the past overlaps discontinuously into the present conversation. The eternal object of novels is the effective healing about symptoms. Each text accomplishes the healing method in suitable patterns.