One person,
four lenses
One character from drama, film, or fiction, read in turn through Freud, Jung, Yi Je-ma, and Buddhism. When the four lenses do not agree, the gap is left as it is.
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For several days I had been putting off one reply. Nothing difficult about it. I had known from the start what I wanted to say, had drafted it in my head many times over. But the moment I sat down before the screen and the cursor began to blink, my hand …
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Choi Jang-hyuk
Korean medicine doctor · writerAfter closing the clinic door, I sometimes put on an old sitcom again. Then one day a man kept catching my eye. He is avoiding something, I thought.
Fictional characters are read through four lenses — Freud, Jung, Yi Je-ma, and Buddhism. Each lens draws only on traditions verifiable in the original texts, and when the four do not agree, the gap is left as it is. A pure critical essay, without medical advice or clinic information attached.