The Symbolic Meaning of the Tree in Korean Traditional Faith and Rituals

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· 발행기관 : 한국모래놀이치료학회
· 수록지 정보 : 모래놀이치료연구 / 10권 / 1호
· 저자명 : Park Boo Jin

목차

1. Introduction
2.1 Shindansu(神檀樹) and the World Tree(世界樹) in Tangun Mythology
2.2. Shrine Tree: The Place of the Gods
2.3. "Marrying the Tree off" and The Circulating Vitality
2.4. The Symbol of Regeneration and Revival
2.5. The Symbol of Wholeness
2.6 The Tree chasing evil
3. Conclusion
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초록

The analysis in the system of symbol and meaning is an essential task to understand the human
subject. This analysis is so in the view of not only the anthropological perspective in which human is
the cultural beings but also the analytical psychology in which human is a community sharing the
group unconscious.
The symbol of all human groups have qualified, or shared the system of symbol on faith that has
shaped the development of new knowledge. From ancient times, the variety of human experiences
repeated over time accumulating in our collective unconscious and appearing as a symbol system.
In the everyday life of modern society, Jung noticed it is far from the influence of its religion and
rituals, most people have lived poor lives mentally. "We have no symbolic life and are eager to need
the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express...the need of the soul everyday." (Jung, 1977:274)
Jung's view makes us aware of the importance on the nature of religion and rituals.
According to Geertz(1973), the religion is the symbolic system emphasizing the essence of real
society to people, the base enhancing people's feeling on real world. The religion symbolizes and
interprets the reason for being, the essence of life, and man's world view. There is a symbol as the
man's universal spirit with super-individual nature in the traditional faith and rituals of a society. This
means that the traditional rituals of a society or a community of faith, contains a symbol system that
could be metaphorically viewed as a bowl. People define the own world, change it to the own model
on universe through the symbolic system dominating their daily life.
In this study, we want to interpret the symbol of the tree on the faith and rituals, showing such
universal symbolic system. The tree is the most common figure in the process of making box for
sand-play therapy. the tree appears with various symbolic meaning in not only the step of animals and
plants(Kalff, 2003:10), the first step of three steps of self-development in kalff's sand-box based on
Neumann's self-development theory, but also various stories.

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