Japan in analysis : cultures of the unconscious / Ian Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Ian, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Japan.

Psychoanalysis.

Japan.

Physical Description:

vi, 179 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

This book addresses three key questions: "Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?," "What do we learn about Japan from its own forms of analysis?," and "What do we learn about ourselves from Japan?" The book is about the development of psychoanalysis and modern subjectivity in Japan. It shows how forms of individual selfhood amenable to therapeutic intervention emerged as Japanese culture has opened up to the West. It is also about how approaches to analysing the self have encountered Japan and how analysts tried to make sense of a culture that once seemed at odds with the aims of psychotherapy.

Contents:

Dependency in development : where id was, there ego shall be

Institutional politics and cultural intervention : they were killing their mothers

Civilization and its contents : Buddhistic cyberspace in Kyoto

Religion, cohesion and personal life : a homogeneous culture

Mirrors of the other : why are you asking these questions?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-171) and index.

ISBN:

0230506917

9780230506916

OCLC:

156831806

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