ABSTRACT

Within Mishima’s autobiographical essay entitled Sun and Steel, he explored his growing unease and dissatisfaction with his ability to fully convey his meaning through the written word and that he had begun to seek a means of collapsing the divide between the materiality of his bodily phenomenology and the abstraction of words – a conundrum only resolved by his suicide in late November of 1970. Through this act, Mishima collapsed the boundaries between his fictional world and that of reality and, hopefully, ended the tension between the abstraction of word, thought, and the flesh, that caused, according to his own writings, deep psychological anguish. This compulsion to merge the Symbolic Order into the Real through an action that can only result in self-annihilation is present in Mishima’s work as early as his 1956 novel, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. To further explore this aspect of the “Mishima-text,” as described by Hirata (1990), this text will explore the dysfunctional understanding of the Symbolic Order possessed by the novel’s lead character Mizoguchi and how this disfunction is echoed in Sun and Steel.

摘要

在三岛的自传散文《太阳与钢铁》中，他探索了他对自己通过书面文字充分传达其意义的能力日益增长的不安和不满，并且他已经开始寻求一种方法来消除他的身体现象学的物质性和文字的抽象之间的鸿沟——一个难题只有解决了他于 1970 年 11 月下旬自杀。通过这一行为，三岛打破了他的虚构世界与现实世界之间的界限，并有望结束文字、思想和肉体的抽象之间的紧张关系，根据他的说法，自己的著作，深深的心理痛苦。早在三岛 1956 年的小说《金阁寺》中，这种通过一种只能导致自我毁灭的行动将象征秩序融入现实的冲动就出现在他的作品中。. 为了进一步探索平田（1990）所描述的“三岛文本”的这一方面，本文将探讨对小说主角沟口所拥有的象征秩序的功能失调的理解，以及这种失调如何在《太阳与钢铁》中得到回应。