<子ども><大人>の考古学 : その発生根拠に関する試論的考察

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The concept of Child should be distinguished into three categories. 1. Child in fact or actual child. 2. Child as norm i. e. as what ought to be. 3. Child as "archetype", as it were. We will express the last category as 'Child'. Such categorization is all the same with Adult also. By the way 'Child' resides in the actual adults and 'Adult' is growing in the actual children. 'Child' asks, "Why?" This question of 'Child' is infinite and answerless. It represents the "deviation" of the mankind as "homo demens" from the natural process of the life in general. As well as the syngenesis the biological "deviation" of the mankind has emerged through the mutation. The mutant can subsist only under the condition of adaptivity to the environment. But the "deviation" of the mankind could mean the deviation even from this condition. For example the mankind, the paticular mutant, succeeded to adapt the environment to himself in several ways. What can never exist in other animals can exist generally as normal state in the mankind, namely in the form of 'Child'. In all times 'Adult' has accepted and absorbed some of the deviate parts in 'Child'. But lately the unacceptable elements are increasing intensively. Today 'Adult' can hardly seize, how and what 'Child' wills. Consequenty it is required to approach to 'Child' in the children through 'Child' in us, the adults.