Perversion and Modern Japan
Perversion and Modern Japan How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? What do we make of Jacques Lacan's infamous claim that because of the nature of their…
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Perversion and Modern Japan
How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? What do we make of Jacques Lacan's infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people were unanalyzable? How does Natsume Soseki's canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development?
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' 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.
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