A Horn-eye View of Winter Sonata (2002)

This essay uses Karen Horney’s (1950) concept of the “search for glory” to analyze the Korean soap opera Winter Sonata (2002). It draws on the Japanese animated film The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) to clarify the concept of the search for glory, and employs the literary critic Bernard J. Paris’s (1974, 2012, inter alia) notion of the “implied author” to infer whose search for glory is being presented. Since the analytic framework presented is not established, I argue that support for Horneyan theory can be found in its consilience with the ongoing works in brain science of J. Allan Hobson and his collaborators.