The Dialectic between “Being” and “Nothingness” in Symbolic Experience

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  • 象徴体験における有と無の弁証法
  • 那智の火祭りの現象学
  • Phenomenology of the Nachi Fire Festival

Abstract

In this article, the author discusses the structure of symbolic experience through a phenomenological interpretation of the author's own experience at the Nachi Fire Festival (Nachi-no-Hi-Matsuri). In this festival, sacred portable shrines (ogi mikoshi) symbolize individuation (Being), and the fire burning the mikoshi symbolizes Nothingness. Furthermore, the mikoshi rising from the fire symbolizes dynamic creation (i.e., the dialectic between Being and Nothingness). These symbols are constructed through the world-projection (defined by Binswanger) of the community that conducts the festival. The author symbolically experienced the world of creation by formally sharing in the world-projection. However, the author was an observer at the festival and therefore was not part of the concrete historical world that the community projected. In psychotherapy, the therapist formally shares a client's world-projection and the two project their historical worlds together. Psychotherapy serves the same function as the festival in which the community projects its historical world.

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  • CRID
    1390282679447864960
  • NII Article ID
    130005438315
  • DOI
    10.11377/sandplay.25.1_27
  • ISSN
    2186117X
    09163662
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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