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A Study on Healing in Noodles by Kim Soom

  • Journal of Korean Hyo Studies
  • 2017, (25), pp.153-180
  • Publisher : The Korean Hyo Studies Association
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : June 30, 2017

Han Nam Myeong 1

1강원대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research examines the seamy side of ‘self’, another ‘I’, approaching with a perspective of shadow aspect of Jung’s theory. The study aims to seek if the heart is searched or the healing effect works by how suppressed feelings and a sense of inferiority are conscious and projected. Modern people who lead a hectic life lack experience with handling emotion. Not only anger control and training, inner healing is necessarily required of the times, since the feeling of the repressed anger is beyond the consciousness. The psychologist Jung said that to search and heal the inherent feelings in unconsciousness is needed. According to him, unconsciousness refers to everything of our mind that we still don’t know despite even what we possess. Jung refers to self at the seamy side as shadow and it is such an inferior personality as varied psychological contents on the other side of consciousness. The literature “Noodles” restructures lifetime of the narrator dividing into the past and the present. The narrator of the present encounters to examine the dark shadow of his past self in the process of reminiscing the past. In other words, this literature work offers readers space to sympathize by the narrator recalling the past of ‘I’ and searching for shadow in his mind in the unfolding of the narrative calmly. Literary works imitating our lives are extremely valuable material as they effect in through people’s inner space. Readers may feel as a narrator even though it is a fiction. Identification through the literature becomes an opportunity for readers to realize their own problem. The ties between parents and child which owes to his step mother who embraces everything like a tree with only a stump remains of it may be learned. “Noodles” given a description as confession is conscious the shadow which never been and helps ‘self’ move to wards the core, ‘himself’. This can be found from his trying of self-reflection and reconciliation by looking back at the past in the narrator’s confessing words. Like the noodles cutting now in the present are different from the noodles cut in the past, the narrator’s attitude to step mother in the past and the one in the present are transformed. As the narrator changed his mind, that readers’ mind before and after reading changed positively can be figured out by reviewing cases.

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