The purpose of this study is to understand how a painter Chun Kyung-Ja heals her own emotional pain
through her works, especially focusing on the theme of snakes. Her life was filled with love and breakups,
pain and sorrow, and anger. In her works, thus, all objects are representative of basic sorrow, solitude, and
emotion of alienation. Her works were influenced not only by the spirit of the age and cultural factors, but
also by her psychological states. In her life, artistic action was a means to extend her life; in particular, the
theme of snakes was the basis of her life and the extension of life. To understand the meanings of
sublimation and self-therapy, the study selected seven works presenting the theme of snakes. The analysis
of the selected works focused on the symbolic significance of snakes and the process of change of artworks.
The results of this analysis show that firstly, artistic action presents the inner mental world of humans and,
secondly, that trauma imagined through artistic actions has a symbolic significance. This study, thus,
confirms that the artistic action makes emotional healing subliminal and, furthermore, makes the experience
self-therapy. The result of this study has a significant meaning - that the symbolic significance and the
artistic actions presented in the snake-image of Chun Kyung-Ja's works make emotional healing subliminal
and the self-therapy possible.