@article{oai:ocuocjc.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000297,
 author = {浜川, 仁},
 issue = {5},
 journal = {沖縄キリスト教学院大学論集 = Okinawa Christian University Review},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {Although Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater was a great success just after its publication in the autumn of 1821, the work seems strangely devoid of the sort of shock value we might expect today from a publication of that genre. It is, for instance, presented in a polite language seemingly addressed to a gentle, modern, educated readership, carefully avoiding any details that might have been considered even remotely scandalous. By referring to the works in the areas of political and philosophical ideas informed by Hannah Arendt and assembled by several eminent Japanese scholars, this paper first examines the historical and philosophical backgrounds of the modern nation of the West in an attempt to highlight two dominant theories for its origins and characteristics. Building on the postcolonial approaches initiated by John Barrell's influential study, which tends to focus on the variety of figures of the economic and political "other," this paper deals with the traumatic process in which the modern subjects come into being as a result of being deprived of their feudal-based, God-given, personal characteristics. Relying on the psychoanalytical philosophy of Slavoj Zizek, this paper argues that De Quincey's readers represent Great Britain itself as an agency of the Lacanian big Other, and through his Confessions, De Quincey attempts to offer himself as a faithful modern subject to that powerful authority.},
 pages = {15--25},
 title = {トマス・ド・クインシーと近代化－『英吉利阿片服用者の告白』を読む－},
 year = {2008}
}