Year: 2001 Source: Psychoanalytic Review, v.88, no.6, (December 2001), p.771-791 SIEC No: 20021413

This article serves as a profile of the post war Japanese writer Yukio Mishima who performed ritualistic suicide. The conflict between themes in his works & his life such as death, erotic violence, excrement, hatred & degradation for feminine versus the immaculate, are discussed within the work. The topics of phallic narcissism, psychological castration anxiety, homosexuality & anal sadism are also examined. MishimaÕs ritualistic suicide as a sexual fulfillment in which he played the victim and the voyeur & how the components of his work influenced his death are also examined. (44 refs.) (AK)