子ども時代における自然体験と精神の健康 : ベルクソンの新たな解釈を通して

Abstract

The English natural poet, William Wordsworth's poems have a mystic power. We are aware of many incidents where people have recovered from their mental crisis by reading Wordsworth's poems. They informed that they remembered their experiences of the natural world in their own childhood by reading Wordsworth's poems, and they regained their health of mind. Then, what are the experiences of the natural world in childhood that people remember by reading Wordsworth's poems? And why does the revelation of their experience of the natural world urge them to recover from their mental crisis? In short, what is the relation between "the experience of the natural world in childhood" and "the health of mind"? The purpose of this paper is to make clear the above-mentioned relation through the philosophy of Henri Bergson. On this occasion we use the interpretation of Bergsonim by Gilles Deleuze, because he attempts a new interpretation by transcending an old interpretation as "The philosophy of life (Lebensphilosophie)". Through the new interpretation of Bergsonism, we will be able to obtain an educational understanding about the experience of the natural world in childhood, and a new point of view about man's power of life.