In order to search the psychopathological aspects in motherchild relationships of delinquents, five male cases, treated at a juvenile detention and classification home, were discussed mainly from the vie叩ointof their TAT responses. The key concepts to analyze each case were as follows:

“Mishoh-On”, child’s grudge concerning his birth against his mothor in the Tale of Ajase, “Skewed Family” vs. “Schismatic Family” by T. Lidz, and “Great Mother”by C. G. Jung.

The discussion centered on negative archetypal images of “Great Mother” projected on TAT responses and their influence on child’s misdeeds. The child binded with negative “Great Mother” images harbored quite ambivalent feelings between aggression and dependence toward his mother, and losing control over such feelings often led him to do some acting out, such as raping, reckless driving, ransacking. In addition, the psychological absence of the father, tended to make it difficult for the child to attain independence from “Great Mother”.

Two-hundreds and fifty-four subjects (124 adults and 130 university students) were administered Averill’s questionnaire on "the everyday experience of anger," in which they were asked to recall an episode involving intense anger they had recently experienced, and to rate it on a number of scales that were designed to

tap the objects, the instigation, the motives, their responses, etc. in thier anger experiences. The main results were the followings. (1) Anger was frequently directed at those persons which the subjects well knew, such as family members or friends; (2) Anger was principally instigated by frustration or an affront to their honor which were perceived by them as wrong-doing; (3) The aim of anger (the motives) were to correct the situations as well as to revenge, thus anger motivated both aggressive and nonaggressive responses; (4) When the instigators became aware of their anger, some of the instigators responded with apology but the others with hostility; (5) Every subjects showed any autonomic or expressive responses which seemed to operate as cues for their feeling angry; (6) Their subsequent emotional changes were generally negative, but they usually attempted to alleviate it through reappraising the event.