Reflections on Animus and Anima in the Context of the Korean Culture: The Two Ghostly Figures of Goblin Tokkaebi and the Revenant Kwisin Cover Image
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Réflexions à propos d’un animus et d’un anima coréen : les deux figures fantomatiques du goblin tokkaebi et du revenant kwisin
Reflections on Animus and Anima in the Context of the Korean Culture: The Two Ghostly Figures of Goblin Tokkaebi and the Revenant Kwisin

Author(s): Hyun-sun Dang
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Collective Unconscious of the Korean People; Korean Imaginary; Korean Fantastic Literature; Ghostly Character; Anima; Animus; Tokkaebi; Kwisin;

Summary/Abstract: The Korean collective unconscious has two types of ghostly figures, the goblin and the revenant, or tokkaebi and kwisin. Our aim will be to show the differences in the construction of the female and male imaginary and how these two figures have been shaped by their cultural, historical and societal contexts.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 307-316
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French