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KMID : 0368920210360010001
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Shim-Song Yon-Gu
2021 Volume.36 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.54
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Psychological Symbolism of the Shamanic Song of Princess Bari : From the Perspective of Analytical Psychology
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Kim Young-Hee
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Abstract
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Princess Bari, the seventh daughter of the King and Queen, is abandoned at birth. She one day embarks on a solitary journey into the underworld to seek the antidote she needs to save her ailing father. The shamanic myth then depicts terrible ordeals, after which the Princess manages to obtain the elixir of life to bring her parents back to life, leading to her deification as the Queen of all shamans.
The life of Princess Bari as the ancestor of shamans incorporates the necessary rite of passage to become a shaman, persevering through all manner of trials and tribulations until death and then being reborn. Princess Bari’s story of deification as the goddess of shamans constitutes the archetype or the primitive image of the collective unconscious, the mytheme.
From the perspective of analytical psychology, Princess Bari, who became the Queen of shamans after undergoing a process of pain, death, and then rebirth demonstrates a facet of the individuation process, evident in heroic mythology.
Princess Bari not only cured her parents of disease but also brought them back to life. What enabled her to obtain the elixir to resurrect her parents was her love and compassion for them based on self-sacrifice, enduring all the trivial and repetitive undertakings of everyday life. She viewed the world and behaved from the perspective of a broader Self.
Making herself a powerful healer through the ordeals in the underworld, Princess Bari is the psychopomp as well as the healer archetype. The sacred power of healing that goes beyond the Princess’ sufferings represents the Self Archetype inherent in the mentality of the Koreans, in other words, a symbolic power that indicates the divine representation of a healer.
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KEYWORD
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Princess Bari, The individuation process, The queen of all shamans, Self archetype, Healer archetype
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