Psychoanalysis.  2021 Oct;32(4):127-141. 10.18529/psychoanal.2021.32.4.127.

Study for Mongyu Dowondo ‒ Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land ‒ in the Perspective of the Unconscious: Centering on Dream Interpretation of Prince An Pyeong

• Lee HK
• Yoon HR

• KMID: 2521508
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.18529/psychoanal.2021.32.4.127

Abstract

This is the first study analyzing Prince An Pyeong’s dream, the main character of “Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land (henceforth abbreviated ),” which is the most important milestone in the history of Korean painting, from a psy-choanalytic perspective. According to the analysis of Prince An Pyeong’s , which is based on Tao Yuanming’s , a representative poet of China’s Jin(晉) Dynasty, “Prince An-pyeong wishes for a world of father object with a mother object.” Utopia for An Pyeong was an unconscious fantasy that repeatedly emerged at the end of King Se-jong’s reign, and his life’s direction was to follow his father’s will and protect the eldest son’s succession as desired by the father.Based on the foregoing analysis, the author concluded that in the Korean utopia, King Sejong’s space as an important object, was unconsciously progressing and how the unconscious contents-latent dream-affected the artistic form.

Keyword

Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land; Prince An Pyeong; Artist An Gyeon; Dream Interpretation; The Unconscious