卡內提《迷惘》中主角彼得．基恩向來被視為純粹智識分子的典型，本論文針對其所謂「世界第一漢學家」的神話予以拆解，透過對他自稱的「學術成就」的詳細分析，證明其「學術地位」並非敘述者所提供的在小說世界中的客觀資訊，而是小說人物本身的「偉大妄想」（Grosenwahn），藉著闡明其所以為漢學家的時代背景以及心理因素，進而診斷其自我形象乃其異常性格的病徵，是個人對社會的特殊適應模式，並指出傳統精神史式詮釋的盲點所在。

This article focuses on the protagonist Peter Kien in Elias Canetti’s novel Die Blendung (Auto da fe) and aims at analyzing his title “the First Sinologist.” Through a detailed examination of his so-called “academic accomplishments,” this article proves that his “academic status” established in the novel is not objective information from the narrator about the fictional world, but megalomania (Grosenwahn) of Peter Kien self. By explaining the historical background and psychological factors behind this figure’s becoming a sinologist, this article hereby indicates that the traditional interpretation of the history of ideas (Geistesgeschichte), which sees Peter Kien as an archetype of the intellectual, has a blind spot.