아쿠타가와 문학과 광기의 모티프 ‒광기의 기저로서의 유전적 기질과 세기말예술‒

Abstract

This paper examines the background and aspects of madness motif in Akutagawa’s. literature This is related to the trauma of the birth mother’s insanity and the influence of fin-de-siӗcle art. Akutagawa’s early literature is a technical plot and storyteller. However, in his later works, he meticulously describes subtle nerves and emotions that have reached their limits. His departure as a writer was conscious to erase the mother of madness, but what he reached was a mysterious world beyond consciousness. At this time, he stares directly at the madness of his birth mother. He gives up his early creative attitude of intelligence, reason, and technique, which is symbolized by ‘Artificial Wings’. His literature opens up a new horizon when he discovers that there is a vast world of unconsciousness beyond human consciousness. The world of grotesque madness created by Akutagawa was the opposite of suppression of unconsciousness. Akutagawa acknowledged the force of reason and explored other worlds beyond the conscious world. In the process, it can be said that a new horizon of modern literature was opened.