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Today’s readers acutely realize that it’s getting increasingly harder to find the links between probability and inevitability in psychological impact that leads to?behavior of one’s actions. How can one understand those people showing abnormal behavior who suffer from the anxiety and solitude without no reason;?having antagonism and hatred against somebody that’s not clearly identified; or displaying mysterious pathological symptoms wrapped up with madness? This study started with a question about how to understand such characters, what were the motives of their incomprehensible and irrational behavior, and what was the meaning of such behavior. The questions led to an investigation into why today’s writers often depicted such behavior in their stories. Going through the process of finding the answers to them, the study looked into the psychological concept of‘ adjustment’to find the key to the answers. In psychology, adjustment is a series of effort to strike a balance by responding to the environmental stimuli and regulating desirables voluntarily between desire and possibility to fulfill it. It’s a concept to embrace the process of changing one’s behavior and environment. Adjustment can be classified into three areas. First external adjustment involves active efforts to resolve the problems; second, internal adjustment involves accepting the problematic situation as it is; and third, defensive adjustment involves deceiving oneself unconsciously and thus distorting to threatening situation. While external and internal adjustment are the rational and realistic measures for a conflict situation, defensive adjustment is more irrational and unrealistic approach. This is also called defense mechanism, defensive adjustment is an approach to responding to frustrated desire and conflicts by deceiving one’s behavior regarding his or her desire in order to reduce the tension and confusion.?This is derived from ‘disagreement between ego and experience(or disagreement between desire and possibility).’ Although the term of defense mechanism was first used in psychoanalysis, it’s been confirmed in many different theories that people take such unconscious psychological strategy to protect themselves from the current stress. Based on the general psychology theories including psychological mechanism and abnormal psychology dealing with humans’abnormal psychology with mental disorders, the study tries to prove the fact that irrational and abnormal acts of the characters in modern novels were exaggerations of the universal and commonality among people. It also showed that today’s authors makes every effort to define the functional relations between deep psychology and behavior of the individual to describe them in complicated and sophisticated manners. Those points were proved by examining the characters’diverse efforts and attempts for psychological adjustment and the process of their failures. The results indicate that the characters’weird behavior in modern novels has inseparable relations with the psychological mechanisms that cause it. The psychological mechanisms are the efforts of adjustment for the characters to unconsciously defend themselves from the conflicts resulting from unsatisfying situations and thus maintain the psychological balance. In modern novels, psychological action of adjustment is employed as a means of creation to realistically depict the characters that more concentrate on postponing disruption and catastrophe rather than resolving the situations of conflicts when they are faced with diverse taboos. It’s also used as an advanced technique to describe modern people who live their lives constantly defending themselves from various stresses and struggles. The perceptions and reactions or the thinking methods or behavioral patterns that the characters show in a conflicting situation make the critical elements of the aesthetic features and unique personality of modern novels. They are also embodied as a literary device to report the problematic reality of the modern society; full of various irrationality and contradiction as well as reflecting complex psychology of modern people.

목차

1. 들어가며
 2. 방어기제(Defense Mechanism)와 작중인물의 심리적 적응행동
 3. 고통의 수평이동 혹은 파국의 지연
 4. 나오며
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• 나소정 [ Na, So-Jung | 명지대 강사 ]

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• 간행물명

  한국문예창작 [The Journal of Korean Literary Creative Writng]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1598-9267

• 수록기간

  2004~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 802 DDC 800