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No real writer writes because of conscious palpable reasons, and instead his pen is guided by unconscious forces as Freud, Rank, Sachs, kris, Bergler and many other analysis formerly have said. The theory of the direct transformation of a drive is past history : Nowdays it emphasizes the roles of sublimation, which denotes a transformation of complicated unconscious tendencies into something accepted by specific society as culturall valuable. The writer in his work does not simply give expression to his unconscious wishes, but the rather expresses exclusively, secondary defenses against these wishes. The author has tried in this article to analyze the mental mechanism of the writer S, the hero of ’a comic creature of God’, the autobiographical novel of Chang-Sub Sohn, one of the most well-known writers in Korea in the fifties and sixties, to focus on the sources and process of his creativeness, to understand better mhy this particular writer had described in his other works the world of mantally and physically handicapped with dark rainy atmosphere. The following results were obtained. (1) In the deepest layer of S’s unconscious, there were masochism and guilt derived from his childhood reelatios with his phallic aggressive mother. (2) In S’s formative years, there were three important traumas, such as the absence of the father, enuresis and persistent physical contact to the mother in the range of sexual abuse and/or mother-son incest. (3) As the primary defenses there were pseudo-aggression such as dominance, activity, violent acting-out and exhibitionism. And as the secondary defenses there were depression. Paranoid tendencies, bisexuality, and withdrawal, It appeared that most of S’s works express the secondary defenses against his deepest unconscious wishes. (4) S expresses his conflict upon enuresis in the atmospere and background of the stories where there were water, rains, cloudy sky, monsoon season, snow, night, darkness and bed, and his rage against the man who had eloped with his mother in unmasking the hypocracies of the establishment, while showing his identification with the poor handicapped.
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