Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India

Author(s) : Osamu Kitayama, Author(s) : Jhuma Basak

Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 280
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98082
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032752044
  • ISBN 10 : 1032752041

Table of Contents


Foreword
Acknowledgement
Introductions

Part 1 - The prohibition of ‘Don’t Look’ in Mythology, Culture, & Clinical Contexts
1. Creating Bridges: Japanese ‘resistance’ and approaches
2. Depth-psychotherapy in Shame Culture
3. Re-weaving the story of the prohibition of ‘Don’t Look’
4. The Wounded Caretaker & Forced Guilt
5. Dependence and Transience: Beauty or Danger
6. Various Narratives Centring on “under the bridge”
7. Cultural Invocation of Maternal-fusion in Males – India and Japan
8. Vicissitudes of Transience in Covid Times – Reflection on ‘Shame Culture’, India

Part 2 - The Triadic Tryst
9. Being Drawn into a Primal scene
10. Music Heard When One jumps into a Swamp
11. Enthralled Infancy in a Bed of Parental Tryst

Part 3 - An Interface - ‘Listening to Asian Female Voices’
12. Jhuma Basak to Osamu Kitayama
13. Osamu Kitayama to Jhuma Basak

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