이성과 감정 사이, 심리상담 토크쇼를 통한 치유적 에토스의 구성: <오은영의 금쪽 상담소> 텍스트 분석을 중심으로

초록

‘Healing Media’, whose narrative is based on psychological therapeutic discourses, has been widely consumed in South Korea over the last decade. Although the neoliberal discourses prevailing in healing media have been well documented and criticized for their identifying solutions to social issues as individual efforts, specific examples of therapeutic language and the psychological counselling mode underlying such media discourses have been under-explored. We thus selected and analyzed 17 episodes of the TV Talk show <Dr. Oh’s Golden Clinic> as a recent case of healing media, adopting the critical perspective from Anthony Giddens and Eva Illouz on the contemporary structural change of intimacy and the phenomenon of therapeuticization. Our analysis illustrates that <Dr. Oh’s Golden Clinic> shows how the guests’ private troubles are reconstructed by the host with professional authority, as a problem fundamentally (and partially) resulted from their relationship with their toxic parents, and how such issues can be cured by a rational management of emotion. This type of mediatized therapeutic ethos not only shows that therapeutic language has become an essentialized aspect of the South Korean society but also demonstrates a risk of confining our ability to develop and maintain our emotional capacities to the repetitive consumption of such therapeutic discourse.

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