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Freud and the Far East: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Japan, and Korea by Salman Akhtar (Hardcover, 2009)

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ISBN-13: 9780765706935, 978-0765706935. Freud and the Far East. By juxtaposing the familiar with the unfamiliar, it seeks to enrich our understanding of both. The reverberations of these aesthetic and relational paradigms in epic love stories, martial arts, and cinema are also elucidated.

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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.

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PublisherJason Aronson Inc. Publishers, Douglas Kirsner, June Chu, Daniel Freeman, Mikyum Kim, Lois Choi-Kain, Ming Dong Gu, Do-Un Jeong, Osamu Kitayama, June Cai

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