Society of Comparative Culｔural Studies, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
Abstract
This essay deals with \u22Sensei and his will\u22 in Natsume Soseki\u27s work \u22KOKORO\u22 What I try to analyze here is Sensei\u27s intrapersonal psychology, in other words, the relation between Sensei\u27s Super-ego and ego. The reason for this approach is because the transformation of Sensei\u27s \u22nature\u22 into \u22Fukashigina osoroshii chikara\u22 or \u22strange and terrible force\u22 after his friend K commits suicide reminds me of Freud\u27s theory of super-ego development. However, it is not my intention to draw a moral conclusion about egoism and punishment. I want to consider this \u22Fukashigina osoroshii chikara\u22 of the super-ego as a death instinct, diverted towards the external world and turned against the self. And through this attempt, I also deal with Soseki\u27s \u22nature\u22
