著者

谷垣 紀子

出版者

京都大学大学院教育学研究科

雑誌

京都大学大学院教育学研究科紀要 (ISSN:13452142)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.57, pp.139-152, 2011-04-25

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Laughter is a research theme with two-sided nature and it is not easy to establish an all-inclusive theory of laughter, because it tends to depart from real laughter. In this paper, which focuses on laughter in myth and folktale, I have a view of both and try to demonstrate a point of view that is helpful to understanding laughter in the practice of psychotherapy. As a consequence, I obtain mainly three viewpoints for laughter. First, there will be arisen the movement such as sound, vibration or the internal movement in an individual by laughter. Second, it arises in the interaction between this world and another. That laughter can be both the entrance and the exit to these worlds. Third, laughter has a great tendency to make a person move passively without consciousness. So, laughter in psychotherapy sometimes has a chance to move dynamically. On the other hand, we need to consider the possibility that the laughter does force us to move.