<심청전>의 문학치료적 접근

Abstract

This research is a study on the approach of Shim-Chung-Jun as a form of literature therapy. The narrative of Shim-Chung-Jun is understood as a process of reflecting upon death and restoring the energy of life, thus seeing literature as a tool for helping bereaved families overcome sorrow. Shim-Chung-Jun leads the audience towards the purification of emotion through the deaths of the wife and daughter. The wife exemplifies the experience of individual death, whereas Shim-Chung exemplifies death in a social context. Shim Bong Sa appears to us as a truly living human figure, optimistically and actively changing through these deaths. In a sense, Shim Bong Sa can be seen as a self-portrait of ourselves in our modern times. Shim Bong Sa is a character who overcomes the tragedy of his wife and daughter's death, once again grasping the vitality of life, going on with life by defeating adversity. By indirectly experiencing death through Shim-Chung-Jun, a patient may recognize things not realized before, go through the stages empowering the will to live from self-reflection inspired by Shim Bong Sa, replacing and applying it towards the stages of healthy healing and unification. The effects of healing occur in the point of time when the tragedy of death changes into the vigor of life. Shim-Chung-Jun is a piece of work that looks upon life through death, showing the way to inner peace through conversion of character, recovering the power of life by grasping a healthy and optimistic world-view.