Cultural Complexes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan: Spokes of the Wheel
Part of Cultural Complex Series: Studies from Around the World - more in this series
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : December 2020
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 360
- Category :
Jung and Analytical Psychology - Catalogue No : 97929
- ISBN 13 : 9780367441050
- ISBN 10 : 0367441055
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Thomas Singer presents a unique collection which examines cultural complexes in four parts of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
From ancestor worship in China to the "kimchi bitch" meme of South Korea, the wounded feminine in Taiwan and hikikomori in Japan, the contributors take a Jungian lens to aspects of culture and shine a light on themes including gender, archetypes, consciousness, social roles, and political relations.
This insightful and timely book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, politics, sociology, and Asian studies. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts in practice and in training.
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Seldom have I read a book by assorted authors from cover to cover, yet this particular volume in Tom Singer’s worthy and wide-reaching series on varieties of cultural complexes was compelling for its breadth and depth of focus. I feel better informed about sensitive issues that are still unresolved and that bear the marks of intergenerational trauma, passed on from the colonization, conflicts, and cross-cultural influences of previous centuries, both within Asia and between West and East. Just as it is a ‘must-read’ for the Westerner desirous of knowing more intimately the Easterner, it will be a valuable aid for intra-Asian cultural understanding.
Jean Kirsch, Jungian analyst, USA
The essays gathered in this beautifully designed and edited collection, most written by Asian Jungian psychoanalysts, present a brilliant display of psychological insight into the cultural histories and complexes of the nationalities under consideration. The broad diversity in perspective and content among these reflections is unified within the framework of Jungian theory. For the curious Westerner and Easterner they bring the soul of the Far East closer.
Murray Stein, author, Jung’s Map of the Soul
In Cultural Complexes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan: Spokes of the Wheel, an amazing collection of contributors provide profound insights into cultural complexes. Far East Asia has never been so broadly represented in the Jungian literature. This unique text, drawing upon the Tao Te Ching, links a multitude of cultures into a coherent vision of the collective psyche at its most dynamic. Tom Singer, as maestro of the cultural complex in this collection, creates a polyphonic harmony—it will be a treat for any reader interested in the Far East. The gateway east is open; this is a psychological guide to its riches.
Joe Cambray, PhD, President/CEO, Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA
Table of Contents
Foreword
John Beebe
Introduction
Thomas Singer
Part I
1. Femininity in Chinese Culture: Archetype and Complex
Gao Lan and Shen Heyong
2. Ancestral Worship: A Cultural Complex of the Chinese
Zhang Lei, Hou Yingchun, and Li Xianghui
3. Single Mothers in Marriage: Cultural and Individual Complexes in Displacement of Immigrant Mothers
Gong Xi
4. The Animus Archetype in Chinese Culture
Xu Jun
Part II
5. Postmodern Consciousness in the Novels of Haruki Murakami: An Emerging Cultural Complex
Toshio Kawai
6. Japanese Landscape and the Subject: On New and Old States of Consciousness
Yasuhiro Tanaka
7. Agency, a Japanese Cultural Complex: Transformation of Jungian-Oriented Psychotherapy in an Age of Weaker Agency
Chihiro Hatanaka
8. Voices from Nature and Withdrawal (Hikikomori) in Japanese Culture
Nanae Takenaka
Part III
9. Seeking Hieros Gamos on the Korean Peninsula: Understanding the Political Situations of Two Koreas from a Jungian Perspective
Nami Lee
10. The Kimchi-Bitch Cultural Complex: Modern Misogyny, Memes, and Millennial Men in South Korea
Amalya Layla Ashman
Part IV
11. The History of the Search for the Father in Taiwan: A Cultural Complex
Hao-Wei Wang
12. An Orphan of the Patriarchy: A Cultural Complex in Taiwanese History
Suchen Hung and Hungchin Wei
13. The Wounded Feminine in Chinese Culture
Liza J. Ravitz
About the Author(s)
Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst who trained at Yale Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of many books and articles that include a series of books on cultural complexes that have focused on Australia, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Far East Asian countries, in addition to another series of books featuring Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche. He serves on the board of ARAS (Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism) and has served as co-editor of ARAS Connections for many years.
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