ホイジンガ『ホモ・ルーデンス』（103）小児症
Modern social life is being dominated to an ever-increasing extent by a quality that has something in common with play and yields the illusion of a strongly developed play-factor. This quality I have ventured to call by the name of Puerilism, as being the most appropriate appellation for that blend of adolescence and barbarity which has been rampant all over the world for the last two or three decades. -- J. HUIZINGA, Homo Ludens （現代の社会生活は、遊びと共通点を持ち、遊びの要因が強く発達したかのような錯覚を生むある性質にますます支配されつつあります。この性質は、ここ２、３０年、世界中に蔓延した思春期と野蛮の融合に最も相応しい呼称であるとして、私は敢えて「小児症」という名前で呼ぶことにしています）―ホイジンガ『ホモ・ルーデンス』、 cf. 高橋訳、 pp. 339f 「小児症」（ Puerilism ）は、現代社会を繙（ひもと）くための１つの鍵概念である。ホイジンガは、別書でも次のように述べている。 Puerilism we shall call the attitude of a community whose behaviour is more immature than the state of its intellectual and critical faculties would warrant, which instead of making the boy into the man adapts its conduct to that of the adolescent age. – Huizinga In the Shadow of Tomorrow , Translated from the Dutch b...