(1) The author has made a brief historical review of the theories of psychoanalytic bxplofatitln and understandings in arts and creative works.
(2) The author has reconstructed Yi-Sang´s personal history up until he wrote his maiden work, `December 121" a novel, in a psychiatric sense.
(3) The author has made a brief summary out of the long story of the above novel.
(4) The author has compared the content of the novel with his personal history, and found there were many similarities between the settings and characteristics of the heroes and his own family members, which led the author to hypothesize that to analyze the novel was an easy and safe way to understand his personality make-up, the contents of his fantasies and daydreams, and some materials of his unconscious and it´s affect, and vice versa.
(5) It seemed Yi had percepted his being-adopted by his father´s elder brother as being abandoned by the real parents, which had created intense feelings of rejection from and revenge against the latters thereafter. And it seemed that as an adopted son Yi had received double-bind messages out of indulging love and unreasonable angers from the step-father and hostilities from the step-mother, which, in thrn, had made him feel confused, angered, humiliated, and depressed.
(6) In the novel, Yi told us the poverty, accidents, fire-settings, deaths from gunshot, psychosis and railroad suicide of all heroes, painted with a gloomy and bloody atomosphere, which made the author to interconnect those with Yi´s unconscious aggressive drives directed toward two pairs of parents, his friends of schooldays who had humiliated and pitied on him, and toward himself.
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