잡지 『변태심리(変態心理)』에 나타난 사회적 담론 : <최신의 학설(最新の学説)>란을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the overall picture of the magazine “Hentaishinri”. As a first step, articles from the magazine's “The Latest Theories” section were used to examine the social discourse around “Hentai(perversion)” during the same time period and how this discourse related to the magazine. I examine the career of Gokyo Nakamura, who served as the magazine's editor-in-chief, and the intentions behind the magazine's creation, and identify the position of “Hentaishinri” as an academic journal. Nakamura, who founded the Japanese Psychiatric Association, argued that mental illnesses could not be cured by physical medicine alone, and broke away from the existing institutionalized research to study clinical psychology, social psychology, and sociopathology, and published articles related to these fields in “Hentaishinri”. In particular, lawyers, literary scholars, religious scholars, and newspaper reporters who were on the cutting edge of academia at the same time joined the Japanese Psychiatric Association as members, and their research papers and articles were consistently published through the magazine. Thanks to the publication of these papers and articles, “Hentaishinri” was able to establish itself as a scholarly magazine. Second, I identified key words in the titles of all articles in the “The Latest Theories” section and analyzed the connections between the key words and related words. In the section of the magazine, articles on various social issues that fall under the category of “Hentai” in other newspapers and magazines were consistently introduced from an academic perspective. I analyzed the most frequent keywords in the titles of 667 articles in the section and found that they were “mind,” “psychology,” “crime,” “education,” “religion,” and “superstition,” in that order. It can be said that the magazine tried to analyze not only mental illness, abnormal psychology, delinquent boys/girls, and women's crimes in the category of ‘Hentai,’ but also children's behavior, superstition, and socialization, and that various social aspects under the category of ‘Hentai’ were discussed in various academic fields such as general psychology and philosophical pedagogy, not only in the “Hentaishinri” magazine.