白昼夢に関する研究 : 反復性・空想性を中心に

Abstract

Many of the previous studies on daydreams investigated the contents of daydreams, and discussed their functions. Those studies examined what desires appeared in daydreams or how the personalities were related with the contents of daydreams. However, they had not thoroughly researched the reasons why people with such desires or personalities experienced their own themes through the means of daydreams. To deal with this problem, it was necessary to pay attention to the styles of daydreams and not only the contents. In this study, the degrees of repetition and fantasy of daydreams were investigated. It was considered that the degrees ranged extensively and that the functions of daydreams vary depending on these degrees. This study mainly focused on repetitious and fantasized daydreams. It was found that only certain scenes appeared in the repetitious daydreams, and that some fantasized daydreams were oriented toward danger and difficulty while others were oriented toward harmony and stability. These results suggest that the therapeutic meaning of daydreams lies in the process where people repeatedly deal with their own themes in a safe world and return to a harmonized world.