@article{oai:kbu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00003393,
 author = {井上, 嘉孝 and INOUE, Yoshitaka},
 journal = {臨床心理学部研究紀要, Reports from the Faculty of Clinical Psychology Kyoto Bunkyo University},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This article aims to experientially depict the images of the otherworld in the present days through fieldwork from the viewpoint of depth psychology in sacred place Osorezan. It is useful in the practice of psychotherapy for therapists to understand clients’ psychological boundaries. The psychological boundaries have been generated against the background of historical changes in images of this world and the otherworld. In modern times, images of the otherworld have undergone a serious transformation, but those images have not completely disappeared. Therefore, by conducting a field research of participant-observation of sacred place Osorezan, it is considered that the meanings of the otherworld image for the modern people and the conflict of modern consciousness. Osorezan and Itako (a kind of Japanese traditional shaman), in Shimokita Peninsula, a part of Aomori Prefecture in the Tohoku region, have been in contact with people’s vivid emotions since ancient times while preserving a pre-modern mentality. During the fieldwork, I traveled around Osorezan for two days and visited the ground of Osorezan Bodaiji Temple to
participate in Itako’s Kuchiyose ritual in which performing to summon a spirit of the deceased and communicate with them. The pilgrimage to Osorezan is a process in which the pilgrims enter the world of the dead and are reborn through the land formed by the volcano. It is conceivable that the sacred mountain Osorezan and its caldera functions as a natural vessel or a container for gathering the invisible soul and holding exchanges of communication between the dead and the living. Such a process can be compared with “Rosarium Philosophorum” (the scheme of alchemy
and psychotherapy shown by Jung), and also with Zen’s `jūgyūzu’ (The Ten Oxherding Pictures).
In addition, I pointed out the similarities between the psychological experience in Osorezan and the deep consciousness of Zen. For modern people who have lost the otherworld as the objective reality, Osorezan is a rare place, or a psychological vessel, where they can still barely commit themselves to the reality of reciprocating motions and exchanges between life and death. After the substance
of the other world denied, it can be said that reconsidering the psychological relationship between this world and the other world is a significant psychological issue in the modern era.},
 pages = {3--21},
 title = {現代における異界イメージとその心理学的課題－恐山霊場の深層心理学的フィールドワーク－},
 volume = {15},
 year = {2023}
}