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KMID : 0385319960070010018
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
1996 Volume.7 No. 1 p.18 ~ p.31
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A Psychodynamic Study on the Maiden Work of Kim Dong-In, a Korean Writer: ’The Sorrow of the Weak’
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Ha Jee-Hyun
Cho Doo-Young
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Abstract
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It has been known that the hero and heroine in literature are the doubles of the writer in many instances and particularly in the maiden work, and that the maiden work tends to disclose more of the writer’s unconscious materials as his defense system is less tight and meticulous and as his conscious literary technique less developed. We have tried to explore the unconscious creative motives of Dong-In Kim(1900-1951), a Korean writer regarded as the father of short stories in modern Korean literature, on his maiden work, ’the sorrow of the weak’, published in 1919. Kim was the second son of an wealthy family and had a paternal half-brother, 17 years older than him, well educated, wealthy and socially wellknown. At age f 18 Kim lost his father and one year later upon the half-brother’s arrangement he married months later went to Tocyo for further study leaving the wife alone. Then, Kim immediately fell in with a Caucasian-looking outgoing Japanses female classmate : their relationship which lasted for five months was said to be a passionate, corporal and uninhibited one. It is this period in which Kim wrote his maiden work. The story of ’the sorrow of the weak’ follows as this : the heroine, a 19n years old Korean girl, private tutor of Baron K’s family, was living under the protection of the Baron as she had lost both parents earlier, and became the mistress of the Baron finally. When she complained abdominal discomport indicating a pregnancy, she was immediately fired by the baron. She retaliated by taking him to the court, but she was humiliated in public and lost the suit. Several days after the court she had a miscarriage and holding the aborted fetus she was talking to herself that "no more tears!... I have to be strong ... I am rather glad to have this occasion to make me changed!". There were many similarities between the writer and the heroine, such as in age, loss of the parents, education, personality and the status in the family, and between the writer’s elder brother and Baron K in social status, wealth and education. Therefore the unconscious motivations of the writer on this short story are sibling rivalry, a feeling of inferiority, and struggle of overcoming the defeat, and the incident of miscarriage in the story is the condensation of death mourning, marriage, passion, fears and crisis upon which the writer had been facing in his actual life situation.
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