Psychological Marriage Seen in a Japanese Fairytale, “The Story of Aoyagi”

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  • 「青柳物語」に見る心理学的結婚

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The aim of this paper is to interpret the Japanese fairytale “The Story of Aoyagi” psychologically. The story is summarized as follows: a young man gets married to a beautiful woman after overcoming several obstacles, loses her suddenly without any reason, and finally, when he finds the tree stump where they met for the first time, becomes aware that his wife was the spirit of a willow tree. My interpretation of this story is that while the actual process of a marriage between the man and the woman and the loss of the wife are told in the foreground, we see the theme of a psychological marriage behind it. I suggest that “marriage” means psychologically the “reunion of opposites and equals” according to the nature of the soul's logical life. Our story shows us that reunion can only be completed in one's thought.

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  • CRID
    1390282679448188928
  • NII Article ID
    130005095037
  • DOI
    10.11377/sandplay.26.1_79
  • ISSN
    2186117X
    09163662
  • Text Lang
    en
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    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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