コミュニケーションとしてのセクシュアリティと女性の知的障害者 : 坂口安吾の『白痴』を素材として

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This article considers the sexual relationship between a woman with an intellectual disability, Osayo, and a young man, Izawa, in the 1946 novel HAKUCHI by Sakaguchi Ango. Near the end of World War II, a couple begin to meet alone in the man's room. The woman, a wife in his neighborhood, admits her love for him, but he cannot understand her feelings because her disability makes it hard for him to get to know her. He imagines that she has run away from the scolding of a mother-in-law, and decides to take care of her. Nevertheless, he begins a sexual relationship with her. Yet he feels that her soul is dead, and that her body is a lump of sexual desire. He is disgusted with her, although she loves him seriously. With one exception, she cannot communicate her feelings to him: that was when they were forced to flee from the Tokyo air-raids, when he felt her will to live. Once they are in safety, he finds, he cannot understand her. WHY? That is the subject of this article.
2001-07-10