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Author : Miho Kobayashi
Release : 1999
Genre : Japanese
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Book Synopsis The Influence of the West on the Japanese Psyche by : Miho Kobayashi
Download or read book The Influence of the West on the Japanese Psyche written by Miho Kobayashi. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Perry R. Hinton
Release : 2023-06-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Japanese in the Western Mind by : Perry R. Hinton
Download or read book The Japanese in the Western Mind written by Perry R. Hinton. This book was released on 2023-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and cultural psychological ideas around stereotypes and intercultural relations. Hinton considers how the West views the Japanese as an ideologically different “other”, and proposes a cultural theory of stereotypes from which to explore Western observations of the Japanese. The book explores Western socio-cultural representations of the Japanese alongside Edward Said’s well-known theory of Orientalism. It examines the West’s intercultural relationship with Japan, and how this has changed over time, to show how the Japanese have been represented in the Western mind throughout history, to the present day. Hinton argues that our view of other cultures is based on our own cultural expectations, which involve complex issues of meaning-making and perceived cultural differences. This book foregrounds the research through accounts of Westerners about the Japanese, to reveal how cultural representations can influence the ways in which people from different cultures communicate in interaction, and how intercultural understanding or misunderstanding can arise. By reflecting on the changing Western representations of the Japanese, and how and why these have emerged, this book will be of interest to students, academics and general readers interested in stereotypes, cultural psychology, intercultural communication, anthropology and Japanese culture and history.
Author : Hayao Kawai
Release : 2020-12-17
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Book Synopsis The Japanese Psyche by : Hayao Kawai
Download or read book The Japanese Psyche written by Hayao Kawai. This book was released on 2020-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the haunting, sad, and lively depths of the Japanese soul by interpreting some of major themes in fairy tales. A Japanese Jungian psychologist credited with founding Japanese analytical and clinical psychology and a senior professor at Kyoto University, Hayao Kawai (1928-2007) addresses here such questions as why so many Japanese fairy tales end in a "Happily ever after" marriage, and why the female figure best expresses the culture's ego and the country's possible future. Throughout the book, Kawai delicately presents the multiple layers of the Japanese psyche.The American poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who lived for years in Japan, gaining familiarity with the soul of its culture and thought, introduces Kawai's book to the reader.
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Release : 2019-11-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by : Lafcadio Hearn
Download or read book Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life written by Lafcadio Hearn. This book was released on 2019-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First appeared in 1896, "Kokoro: Hints and Echos of Japanese Inner Life" by Lafcadio Hearn was issued on raising tide of the European interest to the eastern philosophies in the late Victorian era. The book is a collection of stories, anecdotes, essays, and journal entries that reflect Japan's inner spiritual life through the people that make Japan the unique place.
Author : Alan Roland
Release : 2021-04-13
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis In Search of Self in India and Japan by : Alan Roland
Download or read book In Search of Self in India and Japan written by Alan Roland. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, a prominent American psychoanalyst explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. A series of fascinating case studies illustrates Alan Roland's argument: the "familial self," rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches and contrasts strongly with the Western "individualized self." In perceptive and sympathetic terms Roland describes the emotional problems that occur when Indians and Japanese encounter Western culture and the resulting successful integration of new patterns that he calls the "expanding self." Of particular interest are descriptions of the special problems of women in changing society and of the paradoxical relationship of the "spiritual self" of Indians and Japanese to the "familial self.? Also described is Roland's own response to the broadening of his emotional and intellectual horizons as he talked to patients and supervised therapists in India and Japan. "As we were coming in for a landing to Bombay," he writes, "the plane banked so sharply that when I supposedly looked down all I could see were the stars, while if I looked up, there were the lights of the city." This is the "world turned upside down" that he describes so eloquently in this book. What he has learned will fascinate those who wish to deepen their understanding of a different way of being.
