■タイトルの通りです。論文名は"The sleeping subject: Merleau-Ponty on dreaming", by James Morley, in Theory & Psychology, Volume 9, Issue 1,1999. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354399091005
この著者のものは数年前の「他者になる夢の現象学的解明」という論文でも引用したことがある。それはともあれ、該当部分を引用する：
" ......Our waking relations with objects and others especially have an oneiric character as a matter of principle: others are present to us in the way that dreams are, the way myths are, and this is enough to question the cleavage between the real and the imaginary" (Merleau-Ponty, 1968/1970, p. 48)*
The oneiric comprehends not only what we think of conventionally as 'imaginary', but also our intersubjective relations. Merleau-Ponty's striking obseravation that 'others are present to us in the way dreams are, the way myths are', asserts that our intersubjective relations have an an oneiric dimention that links them to our experience of dreaming. Our knowledge of other minds, like our dreams, is not objectively (factually or materially) verifiable, but we believe in others as we believe our dreams while we are dreamin them. In this respect, our relations with others have an oneiric character, but such relations are nonetheless very much part of waking perception. If others who are 'real' are nonetheless presento to us in the manner of dreams and myths, this itself is sufficient to undermine any attempt to dichotomize the real and the imagery.(p. 95)
*Merleau-Ponty, M. (1970). Themes from the lectures at the College de France: 1952- 1960 (J. O'Neill, Trans. ). Evanson, IL: Northwestern University Press. 8Original work published 1968.)
ポイントを訳す。「メルロ・ポンティの”他者は夢が我々に現前するような仕方で我々に現前する‥‥”という驚くべき観察は、我々の間主観的関係は、それらを夢見の経験に結びつける夢幻的な次元をもつ、と主張しているのである。他者の心についての我々の知識は、夢についてのように、客観的に（事実的もしくは物質的に）検証され得るものではないのに、我々は、夢を見ているあいだ夢を信じているように、他者を信じているのだ。この点に関して、我々の他者との関係は夢幻的な性格を備える。‥‥」
つまり、夢を見ている時に夢の実在を信じているように、目覚めている時は他者の実在を信じているのだ、ということになる。
