문학 속에 나타난 ‘죄의식’ 연구- 「병신과 머저리」에 대한 정신분석적 독해：트라우마 치료의 가능성을 중심으로

Abstract

In modern society, humans experience the psychological and mental trauma because of small and large shocking events such as major incident, massive disaster, or personal accident variously happening outside. This is commonly called trauma. This thesis aimed to examine the issue of this trauma in Lee, Cheong-Jun’s novel 「A Fool and an Idiot」, to analyze how the issue of trauma has been approached in the literature, and then to examine the possibility of ‘literary therapy’ that could contribute to the treatment of trauma. This thesis aimed to perform this work by reading Lee, Cheong-Jun’s work 「A Fool and an Idiot」 because Lee, Cheong-Jun’s novels frequently show the psychoanalytic issue, and he is an author showing an extraordinary insight into this psychoanalytic issue in his novels. Also, in the analysis of 「A Fool and an Idiot」, this thesis read it especially focusing on the issue of ‘guilt’ of post-traumatic stress disorder, and also aimed to approach the process of forming a guilt and change of mind shown in the novel 「A Fool and an Idiot」 in the dimension of truth, unconsciousness, condolences, and melancholy. Thus, this thesis examined the relation between trauma and ‘guilt’ of characters by analyzing the characters of 「A Fool and an Idiot」, revealed the process of forming a guilt and change of mind through the aspect of relation between trauma and ‘guilt’, examined the relations of guilt, condolences, and melancholy, and also examined how the artistic acts as creative symbolic acts like ‘writing’ or ‘drawing’ could contribute to the psychotherapy of trauma. This discussion is originated from a perspective in which ‘literature is the unconsciousness of psychoanalysis’. The literary works are good enough to be called the ‘unconsciousness of psychoanalysis’ because they fully show humans’ psychological mechanism such as hysteria, compulsion, anxiety, guilt, melancholy, or condolences which are the main mechanisms of psychoanalysis, by fully reflecting the psychological reality of humans.