〈迷惑〉意識の類型：『おだやかな死』における〈迷惑〉の用例分析を通じて

In contemporary Japan, the elderly often say that they do not wish to be a burden on anyone, and they make important decisions with this motivation (here called feelings of "Meiwaku/Burden"). This paper seeks to categorize feelings of "Meiwaku/Burden" according to its relationship to the type of motivation they express. For this purpose, we focused on feelings of "Meiwaku/Burden" of elderly people in France. As there is no easily corresponding phrase in French for our word "Meiwaku/Burden", the French use several different words to express this sense "Meiwaku/Burden". Here we draw examples from Une mort très douce by Simone de Beauvoir, as well as her La Ceremonie des adieux.
The analysis of examples given in these books indicates that "Meiwaku/Burden" of the elderly is motivated by three factors: relationships (déranger), emotions (ennuyer), and body/physical (gêner). In this paper, according to these three motivations we categorize feelings of "Meiwaku/Burden" three types: the feelings of "Meiwaku/Burden" about relationships, the feelings of "Meiwaku/Burden" about emotions, and the feelings of "Meiwaku/Burden" about bodily/physical things.

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