The author has previously explored the psychodynamics of a Korean writer, Chang-Sup Sohn, based on his autobiographic novel , and the creative process of this maiden work in psychoanalytic point of view. In this article, the focus is placed on
the
psychodynamics of the creative processes on first three short-stories after the maiden work, namely "a Death Record", "a Rainy Day" and "Being Realistic". "A Death Record" is a story about a young man, whose personality is described as similar to
that
of the writer, supporting his friend and the family. This friend had married to the hero's fiancee while the hero was imprisoned as a political prisoner in North Korea. The friend is in terminal state of pulmonary tuberculosis, and becomes
paranoid.
After witnessing a physical violence of the friend against the friend's wife, the hero had a dream in that the fought against and wrestled with his friend to protect the woman. Using other materials in the story the author interpreted this dream
as
the
fulfillment of the unconscious erotic wishes of the hero directed to the wife of his friend. Expanding this interpretation further to the creative process of the writer the author concluded that the fulfillment of the unconscious incestuous
wishes
his
widowed mother who had seduced and deserted him during his latency period was the nuclear creative motivation of this fiction. "A Rainy Day" is a story about a young unmarried crippled woman, who was deserted without any mean in an half-ruined
cottage
totally exposed to the heavy rains in summer monsoon season during the Korean War by her elder brother It was found that the creative motivation originated from the writer's suffering from persistent enuresis in childhood: the cottage represented
the
enuretic body, and the young woman the writer as a child. "Being Realistic" is a story in that a passive poor young man loses his lover to an aggressive, able and greedy middle-aged man, and an orphan girl in anaclitic depression whose widowed
mother
stays in North Korea across the from dies of pulmonary tuberculosis. The author concluded that the writer's previous affective state and longing for the mother in childhood after his widowed-mother deserted him by elopement seemed to be the base
of
the
creative impulse of this story.
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