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KMID : 0378019790220010082
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New Medical Journal
1979 Volume.22 No. 1 p.82 ~ p.96
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The Depth Analysis of a Korean Fairytale with Special Reference to the ShadowProblem
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Abstract
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The subject of this investigation is a story of a boy who has been practiced asceticism in a Buddhistic temple for 10 years. The boy returned home and met his double who in the mean time took his place. The false one´s appearence was so similar to the boy that no one could make exact distinction between them. After serious debates the boy was turned adrift by his father and the false one. An old monk gave the boy advice to go home carrying with him a cat. The boy did so and the cat snapped at the false one´s neck and killed him. The false one changed into a big rat.
This tale was compared with several Korean, Chinese and Indian variants and the psychological implications of the event in this story were discussed. An attempt has done to elucidate the symbolical meanings of rat, double and cat by reviewing the folkloristic and clinical materials. The rat who became a man by eating nails the boy carelessly threw away during his stay in the temple can be identified with the unconscious autonomous complex in terms of analytical psychology. The complex appeared in the field of consciousness causing severe conflicts.
The story shows us the phenomena of the personality splitting where the confrontation of ego with his dark uoconscious aspect of personality takes place. It also tells us that the conflicts between the psychic opposites can only be solved by the irrational numinous affect represented in the cat.
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