著者

天谷 祐子 AMAYA Yuko

出版者

名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科

雑誌

名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科紀要 (ISSN:13461729)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, pp.29-47, 2003-12-25 (Released:2006-01-05)

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The purpose of this study was to overview and analyze ego-experience based on children's questions about themselves. Such questions as "Why am IT ?," "Why do I exist?," "Where did I come from?," and "Why was I born at this particular time rather than at a different point in time?," along with the feeling that one's appearance is strange, all were determined to reflect egoexperiences. In the first part of the study, the various "I"s were discussed grammatically, philosophically, psychologically and developmentally. Then previous studies of ego-experience were reviewed. As a result, a new aspect of " I" was suggested, and ego-experience was defined from this new aspect. Ego-experience, then, refers to questions about " I" that are independent of a person's physical and psychological identity. The three aspects of ego-experience were found to be as follows: "questions about one's existence," "questions about one's origin or situation," and "a sense of incongruity with oneself". Finally, we considered a method for examining ego-experience and the meanings of ego-experience.