大正期における芥川の心理学受容 -「忠義」と「奇怪な再会」にみる狂気表象-
Psychological theory in the Taisho period works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke - Depictions of madness in Loyalty and A Bizarre Reunion
The present paper examined the acceptance of psychological theories in the writing of Akutagawa Ryunosuke. The arrival of psychological science in Japan is linked to the work of Motora Yujiro in the Meiji period and, much like Fechner and Wundt, he was initially concerned with the analysis of physical reactions to external stimuli. With the advent of the Taisho period, applied psychology came to influence a range of fields, including education, medicine, law, and manufacturing, while at the same time Freudian psychoanalysis was gradually gaining attention. Perhaps because of such developments, Akutagawa’s depictions of madness may have borne some relation to these coinciding trends in psychology. The present paper analyzed Akutagawa’s descriptions of madness in the novels Loyalty(Chūgi, 1917) and A Bizarre Reunion(Kikai na saikai, 1921), written early and midway through Akutagawa’s career, respectively. In Loyalty, the trigger for the main character’s descent into madness is an external stimulus, consistent with the theories of Wundt, while the Freudian concept of repression is the cause of madness in A Bizarre Reunion. Akutagawa’s depictions of madness were thus transformed by the writer’s progressive adoption of contemporaneous trends within the field of psychology.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.