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치병설화(治病說話); 질병체험의 문학적 재현과 병자(病者)를 향한 타자(他者)의 시선
The Korean Remedy Stories ; the experiences of suffering from diseases, depicted by Literary Expression
이인경 ( In Gyung Lee )
어문론총 56권 143-180(38pages)
UCI I410-ECN-0102-2012-810-003074290

This paper analyzed the experiences of suffering from diseases, depicted by literary expression in the Korean Remedy Stories which are transmitted orally or included in books. As a result, I found that various human thought about the causes of diseases and the ways to cope with them in the stories. In the stories included in books, the narrator supported that the king could get over an epidemic thanks to divine protection, which shows the king`s moral legitimacy and divineness. The fact that the king had suffered from the same disease as the people did, contains very serious meaning. Because it can be expected that the king would willingly to do his best to assist his people suffering from the same pain as he had. Meanwhile, in the stories orally transmitted, kings are usually portrayed as very strange persons suffering from ridiculous diseases which can be cured with preposterous medicine or dirty things such as bugger, dead skin cell, horse-urine etc. This stories hint censure of the king regarded as a stranger by his subjects, because people used to suppose that king is a person widely different from themselves. For that reason, they could not feel real sympathy with the king suffering from illness, and rather to criticized him instead of showing compassion. On the other hand, it shows that the storyteller would criticize sharply the king`s political corruption exposed as a figurative form, disease. The Remedy Stories do not focus on the pain, feeling and desire of the patients suffering from disease. The narrators tell us the stories about the doctors or the family members to care their patients, insead of patients themselves. Consequently the patients` voices disappeared and patients are always alienated in the stories. We can not easily understand the patients` agony, because it is impossible to completely share or sympathize for the other`s physical pain. Especially, the male-narrators used to look at the female patient and her body from a sexual viewpoint. They always regarded the female patient`s body only as genital organs. In conclusion, it is found that the human primarily should suffer from the same pain as others in his lifetime. Even if it were so, the personal pain could not be properly shared with others, because it is absolutely private experiences.

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