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KMID : 0368920100250020163
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Shim-Song Yon-Gu
2010 Volume.25 No. 2 p.163 ~ p.193
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A Psychological Interpretation of a Korean Fairy Tale “I live on my Fortune” - From the Perspective of Analytical Psychology -
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Pahk Young-Sun
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Abstract
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A Korean fairy tale, “I live on my fortune” is discussed and interpreted from the perspective of analytical psychology. Analytical psychology understands fairy tales are stories in which the workings of archetypes of unconsciousness are represented symbolically. Therefore they are intended to achieve psychic wholeness compensating collective consciousness. The fairy tale is found in almost every region of Korea. There are several parallel stories that share similar motifs, such as Samgongbonpoori, a mythological story and a tale on the king Mooh. The father in the story asked his three daughters whose fortune they lived on. The youngest was expelled by her father for she answered, “I live on my own fortune.” Then she came into a humble cottage in the mountain marrying a poor charcoal maker and she found gold there. She became rich, made the charcoal maker a decent learned man and seeked for and took care of her parents who had become beggars. This fairy tale is interpreted as a story about individuation process of a woman who integrated ‘inferior’ aspects and unconscious animus through actively accepting the suffering from being expelled and commitment to the unconscious world, and also about how rigid collective psyche, under patriarchal system, changes toward wholeness through the workings of the unconscious.
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KEYWORD
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Fairy tale, Analytical psychology, “I live on my fortune”
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