In recent years, it is expected that a middle class layer begins to dissolve and social class divides, the background is a change in labor market. In addition, It is expected that the new wealthy are born, and it is also expected that the class which is not newly simultaneously attached to regular employment jobs, such as jobless people and a part-time jobber, arises. In this article, the author point out that there is a possibility the problem etc. of 'helplessness', 'identity crisis', 'self-blame' and 'delusional idea' surface, and the importance of the aspect of the career development counseling as these preventive actions on the problem.

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When we memorize a form in our mind and remember it after a few minutes, we can reproduce only a rough sketch of the form without the details contained in the original pattern. So, generally speaking, the information involved in a form may be said to consist of two parts : Dominant information and Details. Uesaka[1984] has proposed a new type of Fourier descriptor that is obtained by expanding in Fourier series the complex-valued exponential function of the total curvature function of a form, and using this descriptor he has shown that how to extract the rough sketch from the original form. Unfortunately, for some forms, his method of extraction has a disadvantage from a psychologial point of view. The present paper will give a new method of extraction, overcomming the disadvantage and indicating the existence of a new expanding series which is more consistent to the visual psychology.

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This paper is the introductory part of my whole study on the transition of English aesthetic sense in the eighteenth century. It is a generally accepted that Shaftesbury is the first English aesthetician. But to examine aesthetic sense of Shaftesbery, it is essential to define what heritage Shaftesbury received from seventeenth century thought. To investigate the starting point of aesthetic sense in England, I refer to the two great philosophers, Cassirer and Lovejoy, and try to deal with the question of aesthetic sense from the viewpoint of the changing view of the world. Then, by referring to the genealogy of the Neoplatonists by Cassirer and the idea of 'the great chain of being' by Lovejoy, first of all, I deal with the concept of 'the plastic nature' of the Cambridge Platonists to show clearly that Shaftesbury received the concept of a picture of 'a gradual cosmos' from the Cambridge Platonists.

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