Certainly, the Madman’s madness turns freedom of thought and logic into disorganized symptoms that produce wakefulness (Table 8). But he has no common sense as a healthy person, and therefore rarely engages in dialogue. The Madman’s thought process was sinking into the primordial fear lurking behind Chinese society at the time.
Regarding cannibals, there are the people who, as children, never cannibalize. Therefore, alarm bells are set ringing for the people of future generations.
Disturbance of thinking
[Brain activity 6]
Process of cognitive ability ①Perception and attention
Abstraction of elements
[Perception] The cry of mother.
[Attention] Comparison.
Process of cognitive ability ②Learning and memory
Abstraction of elements
[External input] His five-year-old little sister was cannibalized by his old brother.
[Schema] When his parents are sick, he repays them by giving his flesh.
[Existing knowledge] Repayment is virtue.
[Learning] Madman felt a pang of sadness hearing his mother’s cry on that day.
Process of cognitive ability ③Planning and reasoning
Abstraction of elements
[Planning] Madman will reform cannibals.
[Problem analysis] There are records of cannibalism for four thousand years. Madman knows. He rarely meets a civilized human being.
[Problem resolution] Save children.
[Reasoning] There may be some children who never cannibalize.
The story of the Madman is summarized as follows. If people give him a mysterious glare and they would cannibalize him, they could be cannibals. But if they could cross a line, they could become civilized human beings. While they are cannibals, however, they teach their children cannibalism, and therefore future generations will become and raise cannibals.
4 Conclusion
I analyzed Luxun’s “A Madman’s Diary” using the method of cognitive linguistics to seek a synergic metaphor similar to “Thomas Mann and Fuzzy logic.” I obtained the synergic metaphor of “Luxun and Chaos” by using the language and memory method to derive the chaotic features of non-linearity and indeterminism from the behavior of cannibals and the Madman.
花村嘉英著（2015）「从认知语言学的角度浅析鲁迅作品－魯迅をシナジーで読む」より translated by Yoshihisa Hanamura