Mentality of Last Years’ Yukio Mishima through Perspectives of Jung’s Psychological Types―Discussion

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  • ユングのタイプ論から見た三島由紀夫の晩年の心理についての一考察

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"Psychological Types", Carl Jung contends that there are two general attitudes of consciousness; extraverted and introverted. He also describes four functions of consciousness: sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking. Depending on whether the person is extraverted or introverted, these four functions work as extraverted sensing, extraverted intuition, extraverted feeling, extraverted thinking, introverted sensing, introverted intuition, introverted feeling, and introverted thinking. Jung further asserts that when sensing is the principal function, thinking or feeling becomes the compensatory function. When intuition is the principal function, the compensatory function becomes thinking or feeling. When feeling is the principal function, compensatory function becomes sensing or intuition. When thinking is the principal function, the compensatory function becomes sensing or intuition. Based on the dynamics of this principal and compensatory relationship Jung classifies consciousness into 16 psychological types. It is not easy to understand how these types work in real life. We analyzed and discussed the dynamism of the theory of psychological types through some real cases. In particular we examined closely the case of Yukio Mishima, one of the most important modern Japanese writers whose works have the subject of much re-evaluation in recent years. Yukio Mishima could be classified as an introverted thinking type, and the unbalanced development of his thinking function made him an extraordinary man. However, in his middle age, his sensing as compensatory function started to develop in a dramatic, almost morbid way. Moreover, his feeling function, which had previously been underdeveloped, became active to the point that its overwhelming power led him to the dramatic action including the attempt of a coup and his ritual suicide, which was called Mishima Incident. Our examination shows a possible interpretation of this still controversial incident.

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  • 教育学論集

    教育学論集 (70), 235-248, 2018-03-31

    創価大学教育学部・教職大学院

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