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In this paper, the symbolic meaning of the pandemic and the role of the sandplay therapist in integration of psyche and matter were attempted to be understood from an analytical psychology perspective. Traditionally, in Korean culture, when an epidemic spreads, mask dance plays such as Byeolshin Tal Chum Gut Nori which means shamanistic mask dance play and rituals were offered to appease the gods who brought the epidemic, leaving minimal damage and waiting for the god to pass. In that sense, the expression ‘byeolshin’ refers to both a god and a contagious disease called smallpox. The use of mask, tal in these shamanistic mask dance plays and rituals are related to the meaning of ‘mask’. Mask in Korean means mask, but it is also a word that means diseases, problems, breakdowns, shortcomings, difficulties, etc. Also, playing is an interesting part, which means that play has a healing effect and is a way to appease the archetypal fears and anxieties caused by the divine plague. Just as our traditional culture did, in the era of the corona pandemic (mask, mask), sandplay therapists are in a time and situational position to play a role in making clients realize that matter and psyche or spirit, that is, external things are internal projections. This is because sandplay therapy is a play and a ritual, and it is a symbolic and healing approach that allows each person to meet their inner ‘god’, that is, their true Self. This process must occur first in the therapist, and only the therapist who has experienced such a process can understand the client's process in terms of the archetypal transference-countertransference relationship. Also, it was tried to explain the archetypal fear of the pandemic by linking it with the personal complex, and the symbol of the pandemic that appears in sandplay therapy was presented along with the symbols of earthquake disaster in Nepal.
