Children’s becoming a subject in Baek Hee-na’s『Jangsutang Fairy』and 『Strange Mother』

This study analyzes Baek Hee-na's 『Fairy of Jangsu-tang』 and 『Strange Mother』 based on Lacan's theory. In both episodes, a fairy appears in common, and the character structure is fairy-child-mother, and an incident occurs where the child is sick. Among the characters, the children all have a special time with the fairy, I wanted to specifically explore the meaning of the fairy of the two picture books and the fantasy that the children realize through the relationship between the fairy and the children. To this end, we summarized the main concepts and process of subject formation in Lacan's theory and analyzed two picture books based on this. Lacan structurally explained the relationship between mother and child through the Imaginary and Symbolic worlds, and the process of transitioning into the system of language and law after the father's intervention. In the picture book analysis, the text and pictures that make up the picture book were analyzed through a hermeneutical cycle process, reflecting the background, character description, focus, time, and movement. The results of the study were summarized using a dual metaphor of the bathhouse and the cloud, representing the imaginary and the symbolic realms. In this framework, a fairy takes on the role of a mother in the imaginary world; desire is symbolized by food, and the process of becoming a subject occurs through recovery from illness. The subject, who is alienated from the mother's desire in the Imaginary world and the desire granted by the Other in the Symbolic world, has a deficiency that cannot be filled, and is comforted by feeling the fullness that comes from union with the mother, a fairy, in fantasy. Such an interpretation may help understand the psychological process by which children establish their own identity and satisfy their unconscious desires to make up for their deficiencies in fantasy fairy tales.