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Perversion and Modern Japan - Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture (Paperback)
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Perversion and Modern Japan - Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in
Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki's canonical novel Kokoro
pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we
make of Jacques Lacan's infamous claim that because of the nature
of their language the Japanese people were unanalyzable? And how
are we to understand the re-awakening of collective memory
occasioned by the sudden appearance of a Japanese Imperial soldier
stumbling out of the jungle in Guam in 1972? In addressing these
and other questions, the essays collected here theorize the
relation of unconscious fantasy and perversion to discourses of
nation, identity, and history in Japan. Against a tradition that
claims that Freud's method, as a Western discourse, makes a bad
'fit'with Japan, this volume argues that psychoanalytic reading
offers valuable insights into the ways in which 'Japan' itself
continues to function as a psychic object. By reading a variety of
cultural productions as symptomatic elaborations of unconscious and
symbolic processes rather than as indexes to cultural truths, the
authors combat the truisms of modernization theory and the
seductive pull of culturalism. This volume also offers a much
needed psychoanalytic alternative to the area studies convention
that reads narratives of all sorts as "windows" offering insights
into a fetishized Japanese culture. As such, it will be of huge
interest to students and scholars of Japanese literature, history,
culture, and psychoanalysis more generally.
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