Byeon Won-jong: The love lives of women in the Joseon Dynasty

This is not a romance novel, but a romance story of women who survived the Chosun era. A relationship that was difficult to talk about, or even talk about was naturally satirized by the changes of the time. It is an involuntary, instinctive need that occurs naturally without learning. French psychoanalyst and philosopher Raman describes the intitually functioning human needs through unconscious desires. Humans are in the womb, and they're in the same body as their mothers. But it is separated into two bodies, with birth. The original mother and fetus are still conscious of their ‘ pre-birth status ’ after birth. So, there is a need to go back to the state before it's separated, but you can't go back into the same state. So this basic deficiency is shown by the desire to combine it with other reason instead of the mother. Man has the freedom and right to live in dignity and happiness. To meet these conditions, the mind and body must be in harmony, that is, able to live a natural life. Sex is not a feeling of compulsion, nor is it a desire that you cannot have because you want to avoid it. It is necessary to guide sex not only in the darkness of a healthy flesh but also in happiness that can help a bright and free mind. But the old castles were used mostly as a legacy for men's pleasures. There is a sad history of sex that women have had to endure grief and pain only to solve man's desires.

Korean title: 조선시대 여성들의 연애사

Korean author: 변원종

Korean publisher: 북코리아

ISBN-13: 9788963243085