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Psychic background of the ‘wicked wife’ in Korean Family Novel

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2010, (22), pp.203-231
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose

Hyunjoo Kim 1

1서강대학교

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The purpose of this thesis is to quest the psychic background of ‘wicked wife’ in Korean Family Novel. The wicked wife is depicted as an incarnation of the evil and is exaggerated as the most capable woman negatively which can wreck home and family, and nation. There seems to be particular psychic problems on this point. The readers at that period at the spot of goodness execute psychological transference by seeing the wicked wife as the most disgusting person of the society, and as the person that must be banished from the society. It would be psychic mechanism similar to witch hunting and scapegoat. The wicked wife is an imaginative being produced by mass psychology. On the other hand,readers see the most hatred character in inner themselves. It is similar to shadow, inner darkness companion. The readers are surprised at themselves' image through the psychological turnover toward wicked wife. And they self-examine themselves' true image. They experience psychological double-sideness through collective psychic mechanism and individual unconsciousness mechanism. Thereby they examine group consciousness demanded by the society and evoke individual ethics hidden in their inner side. This psychological process seem to be the background of the reading interests of the readers at that period. This point is the reason why many stereotyped wicked wifes exist in Family Novel, and the reason why lots of feminine readers participate at the reading of Family Novel.

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