漫画やアニメについて他者に語るプロセス : 他者に語る行為の背景について

Abstract

This study attempts to clarify the process and backgrounds that people narrate their favorite comics or animations to others. The subjects were 12 university youths. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews in which the subjects report their experiences when they narrated their favorite comics or animations to others. Their reports were analyzed through a Modified Grounded Theory Approach. Their experiences could be divided into two categories : (1) An existence of the other who has something in common; and (2) A will to narrate the comics or animations to others. An examination of the category (1) found that subjects become careful when they select others to narrate and they tend to choose others who know the comics or animations or who are familiar with them because those people will accept their narrative sympathetically. And an investigation of the category (2) found that subjects have not only a will to narrate the comics or animations one-sidedly, but they also have a drive to talk to others mutually. The discussion showed that the client might regards the therapist as his/her "companion" when he/she narrates comics and animations in the psychotherapy. Instead of narrating "selfhood" directly, talking about stable external objects mutually is helpful for the clients who have an unstable self-direction and identity.