[Week 2] Research Proposal

What is my current topic?

My exact topic is 'Did Lee Sang Suffered from persecutory delusion during his life?'. The reason why I chooses this topic is that his literal works had very shocking form and contents. Because many scholars guess that these features of his works reflect his own anxiety and he lived very tragically, I had curiosity about his psychological condition. Furthermore, He was abandoned by his parents in his childhood and had terrible marriage life with her wife who was prostitute. For these reason, I guessed that maybe he suffered from persecutory delusion - be afraid of people.



What are my guiding question?

I want to know following things.

1) Did he suffered from persecutory delusion really?
2) How did his symptoms of persecutory delusion reveal in his works?
3) Why did he have persecutory delusion?



What are my current thoughts?

I am sure that he suffered from persecutory delusion. Many of his poems showed that he suffered from a lot of mental illness - especially persecutory delusion - forward people such as '가정 Family' and '오감도烏瞰圖'.  Furthermore, there is surprising fact that he took a dose of medicine regularly.
For these reason, I think like that.



What is the opposition?

Some used to state that it is illogical to judge that he had suffered from mental disease according to his works because most of his works are just experimental and carrying message about modernism. Also, there are a lot of literal works which have shocking form and contents. All of these poems are not patient.