This article is to psychoanalyze inferiority complex covered of subject in River Elegy. First, I identify the subject, object, and binary opposition between them with actantial model. Second, I indicate the sender is inferiority complex of subject which caused by misachievement, unfavorable treatment and social comparison. Finally, I insight the actual binary opposition and defense mechanism with the contradiction of River Elegy. I discover that the binary opposition, "conquer- conquered" and "richness-poverty", is the unconsciousness of subject covered by the consciousness of ocean culture versus continent culture. Thus, inferior one transfers the mental illness with defense mechanism.