三島由起夫『音楽』におけるヒステリー表象 ―シュテーケル『性の分析』の影響をめぐって―

Abstract

Yukio Mishima's novel Music is about a story of a psychoanalyst, Shiomi and his patient, Reiko, who suffers from sexual arousal disorder with hysterical symptoms such as loss of appetite, vomiting, and tic (facial spasm).As psychoanalysis is the main theme, there are many scenes Freud‘s and Stekel’s theories are used. In particular,Mishima mentioned in his interview about the work that he had written this novel according to Stekel's theory. In the story, Shiomi refers to Stekel's work to treat sexual arousal disorder and directly quotes its passages. It seems that Stekel‘s theory influenced on the novel, but that has not been fully discussed. In this article, I would like to examine the influence of Stekel's Frigidity in Woman in Relation to Her Love Life : Disorders of the Instincts and the Emotions, which Yukio Mishima used as a work of reference when he wrote this novel. In particular, I would like to analyze the role of hysteria, which is described as the main symptom of Reiko's sexual arousal disorder.