反復夢と自我同一性の関係の検討 <研究論文>

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between recurrent dreams and ego identity. It is said that recurrent dreams can tell dreamers about their problems. In adolescence, people may face problems such as Erikson's developmental task for achieving ego identity. If having a recurrent dream implies working toward achieving a developmental task, it would imply that young people who have recurrent dreams NOW are working toward achieving a PREVIOUS developmental task. Two hundred and twenty university students answered a questionnaire about their recurrent dreams as an index of ego identity and gave free descriptions of their recurrent (or impressive) dreams. These students were divided into four categories based on their responses. The results of this study were as follows: (1) The group of recurrent dreamers achieved developmental tasks better than other types of dreamers, and (2) recurrent dream has possibilities about the function to support achieving developmental Task using inner contents.