沈從文의 여성관과 소설 창작 - 소설 창작과정을 통해 본 沈從文의 여신숭배 여성관 -

Abstract

This text aims to reveal that Shen Cong Wen’s view of women is related to the religious concept of goddess worship from prehistoric times and was specified and reinforced through the process of novel creation. First, we have looked at the formation of his view on women with goddess worshipping based on his surroundings during his youth. Shen Cong Wen’s home, Fenghuang was a region where goddess worshipping shamanism was still in existence and Shen Cong Wen has experienced plenty of it from his youth. Also, Shen Cong Wen has grown up in an environment centered around women and he naturally formed a perspective where he viewed women as more friendly and superior as opposed to men from his perspective. Second, we have reviewed the process of his view on women with goddess worship being established based on his life of novel writing. Shen Cong Wen has entered the world of literature to escape the reality of violence, and death and has encountered his anima deep within himself in the space of literary imagination. And as his writing became more mature and his resistance towards violence and death became greater, his anima evolved in phases to reveal the goddess which he has experienced in Fenghuang region from the mythological perspective during his youth. In summary, the anima that Shen Cong Wen has encountered during his process of writing has nurtured the experience of the author within the mythological space of Fenghuang region into a goddess and this process has established his view on women towards goddess worship which was Shen Cong Wen’s own view of women.