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An essay to introduce the drive (=instinct)-theory and the secend topology of Freud into the Kafka-study

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610627
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 独語・独文学
Research InstitutionYamaguchi University

Principal Investigator

KAWANAKA Masahiko  Yamaguchi-University, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (20035158)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
KeywordsKafka / Freud / psychoanalysis / melancholy / hysteria / dissolution and sublimation of drives / the three divisions of the total Ego / the second topology / フランツ・カフカ / ジークムント・フロイト / 超自我 / エス / 内なる声 / 自我の分裂 / 自虐 / 専制的超自我 / 自己観察 / 人格と文学 / 強迫神経症
Research Abstract

My essay to introduce the drive(=instinct)-theory and the second topology of Freud into the Kafka-study is achieved through three publications, the analysis of "The Judgment" (I), (II) and of "The Stoker". These essays are new in two points.
1)Four types of figures are found through the analysis of the works of Kafka. The ego, the id, the protective superego and the accusing superego. These four types are common in his novels and stories. Georg Bendeman, the Russian friend, Georg's father before the "metamorphosis" (a radical character-change) and Georg's father after the "metamorphosis" are the ego, the id, the protective (friendly)superego and the accusing (strict) superego. In <The Stoker>, Karl Rossmann, the stoker, Karl's uncle, and Karl's father are these four types. In "The Metamorphosis", Gregor Samsa before the metamorphosis, Gregor after the metamorphosis, his father before the "metamorphosis" and his father after the "metamorphosis" constitute these four types. In <The Penal Colony>, the explorer, the soldier, the present commandant and the last commandant and the officer constitute these four types. This schema can be found through deep psychoanalytic research.
2)In <The Judgment>, Georg's father sentences his own son to death by drowning without reason to do so. This behavior, which is hard to comprehend, can be explained only by the dissolution of drives in melancholy. The Life-Drive(=Instinct) and the Death-Drive are mixed in the id under normal conditions, but the dissolution of drives occurs in melancholy, and the inflow of the Death-Drive begins from the Id into the superego. The Russian friend as Kafka as poet is a purified Eros (the function of integration), because the literature is nothing other than a work of integration of ego. The inflow of Death-Drive makes the father so brutal to sentence his own son to death.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2004 2003 Other

All Journal Article (8 results) Publications (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] カフカの『判決』における仮面の交換(II)-作品内在解釈と精神分析的解釈-2004

    • Author(s)
      河中正彦
    • Journal Title

      独仏文学(山口大学) 26号

      Pages: 71-95

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] カフカの『火夫』-モティーフと構造2004

    • Author(s)
      河中正彦
    • Journal Title

      独仏文学(山口大学) 26号

      Pages: 97-127

    • NAID

      110006392130

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The Change of Masks in "The Judgment" by Franz Kafka (II)2004

    • Author(s)
      KAWANAKA, Masahiko
    • Journal Title

      Yamaguchi-Daigaku Dokufutsu-Bungaku No.26

      Pages: 71-95

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The "Stoker" by Franz Kafka - Its Motif and Structure2004

    • Author(s)
      KAWANAKA, Masahiko
    • Journal Title

      Yamaguchi-Daigaku Dokufutsu-Bungaku No.26

      Pages: 97-127

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] カフカの『判決』における仮面の交換(II)2004

    • Author(s)
      河中正彦
    • Journal Title

      山口大学『独仏文学』 26

      Pages: 71-95

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] カフカの『火夫』-モチーフと構造2004

    • Author(s)
      河中正彦
    • Journal Title

      山口大学『独仏文学』 26

      Pages: 97-127

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] カフカの『判決』における仮面の交換(I)-作品内在解釈と精神分析的解釈-2003

    • Author(s)
      河中正彦
    • Journal Title

      独仏文学(山口大学) 25号

      Pages: 113-136

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The Change of Masks in "The Judgment" by Franz Kafka (I)2003

    • Author(s)
      KAWANAKA, Masahiko
    • Journal Title

      Yamaguchi-Daigaku Dokufutsu-Bungaku No.25

      Pages: 113-136

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 河中正彦: "カフカの『判決』における仮面の交換(I)"山口大学「独仏文学」. 25号. 113-136 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report

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