A Study Of Li Qingjun 's Novels Of Return To The Country

This thesis studied the characters in < a practice to go home> and <the snowy road> written by Cheong-Jun Lee as homecoming fiction. In adition to find how hometown and mother affect people’s life, the writer used the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Frued and Jacques Lacan.According to Fruedian theory, human’s mental is always operated by id, ego and super ego. If balance between id and ego is lost, mental disease occurs. And Frued is the first person who creat the concept of psychoanalysis. Based on Fruedian theory, Lacan combined Saussure’s structural linguistics with psychoanalysis and have found mirror stage. All of the characters in <a practice to go home> believe that the reason of illness is they don’t have a hometown. So at first, they assume and believe if they find a hometown, they would get better. As a result, they fail to heal themselves. I was confused by playing gut because of neurosis. And the teacher always lost herself in hallucination because of psychosis. The little boy’s false self is so strong that he can’t lead a real life. In <the snowy road>, I and mother have an origin of debt consciousness coming from shame due to poverty. I and mother come to have the debt consciousness to each other through shame due to poverty and resignation. I in the novel says ‘I didn’t have any debt’, but it was just his avoidance and self-defense regarding the failure to resolve his burden. In addition, mother’s shame is a shame about her misfortune, which is the emotion of a regret she accepts and resign herself from. This regret makes the son recognize her love and reflect his attitude he had when he said that he was not indebted. According to Fruedian theory, most debt consciousness comes from a kind of anxiety and shame in any form in the characters. Their anxiety and shame become a psychological focal point, and the story develops with that as a motive power.