거듭나기 과정으로서의 질병 - 한국한문학이 포착한 질병의 한 특징 -

Abstract

Meanwhile studies on diseases having done in Korean Chinese classics mainly have traced recognition of individual writers on diseases or focused on types of literary embodying of diseases. So there have to be showed the limits that how our literature has established and developed relation with diseases, why our literature has stubbornly persistent singing and thinking diseases and what meaning of diseases is in our literature and so on. In this paper, I generally researched that I gathered various records on diseases, focused a series of course, got a disease, agonized, cured and renewed new subject’ therefore I investigated the point of occurring literature of disease and divided meaning of diseases in this point without within individual’s records. Because not only several writers leaving works on diseases understood diseases such as a series of courses but also they wrote new literature and let meaning of diseases divided, I could concluded why our literature has stubbornly persistent thinking and singing diseases in this point. As a result, aspects of that focused on pain attended a disease, feeling of sick subjects from the disease and changes of life etc, are showed in Korean Chinese classics, sometimes writers positioned the disease on politics, society, culture and religion and used diseases as media to read problems of politics, society, culture and religion in Korean Chinese classics rather than diseases themselves. I confirmed these facts in Korean Chinese classics. Ultimately I confirmed that Korean Chinese classics more concentrated on giving meaning and describing qualitatively changed sick subject’s life after curing a disease. We can see that this was a result of understanding a disease as a series of course and a object affected by our literature was not the disease or pain itself from the disease but human related the disease and aspects of relation between human and diseases. Therefore, what a meaning contained diseases in our literature could not overlook diseases meditated subjects’ renewal through a series of course and stimulated occurring new literature in each course. A reason that our literature continuously sang and thought diseases could be found on these facts and evidence that diseases had meanings more than materials and related with literature for a long time could be found these facts.