천군소설의 심성론적 의미 = The Meaning of Mentality in the Cheongun - soseols

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This thesis is a discussion of how Cheongun-soseols[天君小說] represents characters, unfolds plot, and shows a thematic consciousness in the aspect of mentality.
In the process, I readjusted the meaning of shimtongseongjeong[心統性情]. I was able to confirm that so called the "shimtongseongjeong" is a spiritual and physical structures in which determine conditions and induce methods in the process of the inner seong[性] of human meeting the outer matter and appearing to cheong[情]. Here the cheong is what has been appeared by seong and since the cheong is an appearance of seong, the seong and the cheong do not oppose each other. Therefore main complication of the characters in Cheongun-soseols is not what it is between the characters belong to the seong and to the cheong; the problem is a complication between the characters giving harm and the characters giving recovery to the health of mind in the process of expressing the seong to the cheong.
Also I have confirmed that the methods of mind having illness and of mind receiving treatment is an important issue. The process of mind having the illness begins from an impertinent condition when the un-emerged inner human seong appears to the outer appearing cheong, and the process of treating mind begins from the activity of kyeong[敬] fostering the un-emerged inner human seong righteously and completes with the usage of Ui[義] when the outer appearing cheong gets expressed moderately. But by looking at the cheongun-soseols in general, there appears the fact that kyeong[敬] plays the major role instead of Ui and Ui is formed based on the kyeong only.
Through such character representations and the process of unfolding the plots, the thematic consciousness of Cheongun-soseols is to recover the health of the mind, and that health of the mind in the structure of confrontation of the seong and the cheong is not to recover the seong by excluding the cheong but is to show the innate seong to the appropriate cheong. More over, I have confirmed that the ideological basis of mentality takes firm hold of a seat on every side of the character appearances, the descriptive structures, and the thematic consciousness of Cheongun-sosels.
While confirming the function and the meaning of mentality on the side of the character appearances, the descriptive structures, and the thematic consciousness of Cheongun-soseols, I was able to confirm that the mentality is functioning for a common ideological basis of Cheongun-soseols. Nevertheless for each novels, the differences of looking at the seong as an inherent seong[本然之性] and as a temperamental seong[氣質之性] might arise and the attitude toward sadanchiljeong[四端七情] that may appear in other aspects if necessary cannot be denied. From this point of view, it is necessary to reorganize the genealogy of detailed mentality of each novels by subjects but here I am going to end this thesis by discussing the common ideology of Cheongun-soseols and also by postponing what is not discussed here for the future.