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KMID : 0385320010120020270
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2001 Volume.12 No. 2 p.270 ~ p.275
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A Psychodynamic Study on the Korean Folk Fairy Tale : "Tiger in the Mt. Keumkang"
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Ha Jee-Hyun
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Abstract
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The author studied the Korean folk tale "Tiger in Mt. Keumkang" by the psychodynamic method. The gist of the tale is as follows: Once upon a time a hunter left home to catch the tiger in Mt. Keumkang but he failed and became lost himself. The hunter’s young son wanted to look for his father but his mother would not allow it and instead disciplined him to become a man. After nine years of strict discipline and training, the son passed the test given to him by his grandmother. He was finally allowed to go looking for his father and catch the tiger. On his journey, he made some mistakes and shot some innocent people whom he mistakenly took to be the tiger. After a long journey, the son finally found the huge tiger, but unfortunately the tiger swallowed him. In the stomach of the tiger, the son found the bones of his father. So he then killed the tiger by making a fire in its stomach. The story contains psychodevelopmental elements in its progress corresponding to the pre-Oedipal period to latency period. It has specific meaning in terms of the latency in boys to develop masculinity and male gender identity with the separation-individuation issues with mother. Through this folk tale, boys can regress to the pre-Oedipal level to defend current conscious or unconscious conflicts and confront the remnants of unresolved Oedipal conflicts. They can then progress and master the conflicts in line with the progress of the folk tale.
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KEYWORD
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Folk tale, Psychosexual development, Latency
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