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KMID : 0368920060210010001
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Shim-Song Yon-Gu
2006 Volume.21 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.37
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Psychological Interpretation of the Korean Fairy-Tale, "Sister Fox."
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Lee Do-Hee
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Abstract
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I had interpreted the Korean fairy-tale, ’sister fox’ through the method which is used in analytical psychology. It begins with a story of a parent who have only 3 or 5 or 7 sons. It consists of two different stories. The first one is the story of begetting the youngest sister, who has been transformed from an age-old fox. And the other is a story of the youngest son who was expelled by his father as he had reported the destructive deeds of his newborn sister during night.
An introductory part of this story shows the problems of those days when this story was originated, such as an extreme preference of the son and a male-dominant patriarchal trends of thought. I think this story also has a key to solve those problems. In those days, the feminity which had long been repressed had remained in the unconscious as an archaic, destructive form. As a result, when it has to incarnate, it takes a form of a magic creature who transforms into a fox at night and kills living creatures. Owing to its destructive nature, it could be called killing anima, an archetypal figure of negative anima in the psychological term. It kills cow, horse and other domestic animals by extracting and eating their livers, which are believed to be an abode of souls and represent emotion and courage of human being. In other Korean fairy-tales, we can see a woman who had been transformed from a fox could have become a human being permanently, if she had devoured certain amounts of human beings(100 or 1,000). It tells us that it is a dangerous work which require a lot of sacrifices to integrate such a negative anima.
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KEYWORD
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Sister-fox, Negative anima, Feminity
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