魯迅의 글쓰기와 치유 ― ‘환등기 사건’을 중심으로

Abstract

Lu Xun becomes an interesting text in order to explore healing capacity embedded in writing. Starting his literary career, simultaneously giving up his medical school, Lu Xun exemplifies writing as an asset for a medical application. Writings of a philosopher, illuminator and revolutionary, Lu Xun’s texts require a careful reading regarding his conversations with the world. In this regard, the readings of the "lantern slide" occasion suggest Lu Xun’s literary career as a choice for self-healing. Instead of interpreting the experience as his literary enlightenment, I explore it as an origin of shame and despise directed to himself, which explains the reason for his preference of literature to medicine. Lu Xun sympathized with himself for spending his childhood as a beggar. Troubling with his suicidal impulse and matricidal drive, Lu Xun filled his life with a clinical pain. For Lu Xun, writing served as his self-healing machine. To this end, characters attempt to make conversations. Although narrative of conversation reveals incapacity, especially in pessimistic conditions, Lu Xun could not give up his belief in writing as in healing and subsequent consolation. Therefore, he continued to discover new literary dimensions such as childhood, fairy tales, and animal kingdoms. In addition, Lu Xun even destroyed basic narrative structure by interweaving his writings only with storytelling. Motivated by self-healing, Lu Xun, as a text, is even more significant in its extension to Chinese society; furthermore, Lu Xun’s thoughts of human freedom and liberty eventually justify his self-healing writing.