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in his subconscious. The omen becomes a “mechanism buried inside” of him, a “‘timing device buried inside’” his genes that he feels will lead to his destruction. Kafka relates his father’s omen to the execution device that appears in Franz Kafka’s The Penal Colony. For him, the device in the story isn’t “some metaphor or allegory – it’s actually here, all around me” in the form of the omen. Kafka’s father, Tamura Koichi, is a famous sculptor whose “…chief theme was the human subconscious…His best-known work was his major ‘Labyrinth’ series, which explored…the beauty and inspiration found in the meandering contours of the labyrinths.” For this reason, Kafka feels that to his father he was just another sculptural project. The omen that he buried in his son’s subconscious is just like his sculptures, which focuses on the labyrinth of the subconscious. Kojima refers to the omen in the words of Ōshima as a “labyrinth set within” (「内にセットされた迷宮」). In other words, the labyrinth is a metaphor for the subconscious. Subsequently Kafka must constantly deal with the struggle between his conscious mind that is trying to get away from the omen and the subconscious mind, the labyrinth within, which is trying to fulfill it. This leads to an alienation from himself. As Macquarrie states, “For the existentialist, alienation is understood chiefly in inward terms. It is the existent’s alienation from his own deepest being.” Ōshima clearly sees this struggle within Kafka: “‘You’re seeking something, but at the same time running away for all you’re worth’” What Kafka is searching for is his identity. However, he will not be able to reach it while denying and running away from a part of his identity: his subconscious (omen).
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