Freud and the Far East Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Japan, and Korea

by Akhtar, Salman; Cai, June; Choi-Kain, Lois; Chu, June; Freeman, Daniel; Gu, Ming Dong; Jeong, Do-Un; Kim, Mikyum; Kirsner, Douglas; Kitayama, Osamu; Kosawa, Heisaku; Moore, Mark; Nayar, Monisha; Okinogi, Keigo; Roland, Alan; Sachs, David; Snyder, Elise; T

• ISBN13: 9780765706942
• ISBN10: 0765706946
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-27
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

This book is a lexical ambassador with the dual responsibility of bridging the West and East and enhancing psychoanalytic conceptualization in the course of such an encounter. By juxtaposing the familiar with the unfamiliar, it seeks to enrich our understanding of both. Within its pages, distinguished psychoanalysts from East and West weave a fine and colorful tapestry of the ubiquitous and idiosyncratic, the plebian and profound, and the neurotically-inclined and culturally-nuanced. They provide meticulous historical accounts of the development of psychoanalysis in Japan, Korea, and China and familiarize the reader with interesting personages, quaint phrases, cultural nuances, founding of journals, and emergence of groups interested in psychoanalysis. The contributors to the book discuss the depth-psychological concepts of amae, Wa, Ajase complex, and the 'filial piety complex,' thus underscoring the intricate interplay of drive and ego development with the powerful forces of ancestral legacies and their attendant myths and fantasies. The reverberations of these aesthetic and relational paradigms in epic love stories, martial arts, and cinema are also elucidated. In addition, the book offers insights into the psychosocial trials and tribulations of the Western immigrant populations from these countries and their offspring. Finally, the implications of all this to the conduct of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are addressed.

Author Biography

Salman Akhtar is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Tales and Terrains
Psychoanalysis in Japan	p. 9
Psychoanalysis in Korea	p. 27
Psychoanalysis in China	p. 43
Traditions and Transformations
Two Kinds of Guilt Feelings: The Ajase Complex	p. 61
Amae: East and West	p. 71
Wa: Harmony and Sustenance of the Self in Japanese Life	p. 79
Psychoanalysis in the ôShame Cultureö of Japan: A ôDramaticö Point of View	p. 89
The Butterfly Lovers: Psychodynamic Reflections on the Ancient Chinese Love Story ôLiang-Zhuö	p. 105
The Filial Piety Complex: Variations on the Oedipus Theme in Chinese Literature and Culture	p. 115
Transformation of Korean Women: From Tradition to Modernity	p. 137
The Food-Sex Equation: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Three Sizzling Movies from the Far East	p. 161
Zen, Martial Arts, and Psychoanalysis in Training the Mind of the Psychotherapist	p. 175
Transpositions and Techniques
The Chinese American Family: Some Psychoanalytic Speculations	p. 199
Second-Generation Korean Americans	p. 215
An American-Japanese Transcultural Psychoanalysis and the Issue of Teacher Transference	p. 235
Naikan-A Buddhist Self-Reflective Approach: Psychoanalytic and Cultural Reflections	p. 255
Psychoanalytic Therapy across Civilizations: Asians and Asian Americans	p. 275
References	p. 293
Index	p. 311
About the Contributors	p. 325
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