Japan in Analysis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introductions and Preliminary Meetings

   • Ian Parker

   Pages 1-4

3. Dependency in Development: ‘Where id was, there ego shall be’

   • Ian Parker

   Pages 5-26

4. Institutional Politics and Cultural Intervention: ‘They were killing their mothers’

   • Ian Parker

   Pages 27-47

5. Civilization and its Contents: ‘Buddhistic cyberspace in Kyoto’

   • Ian Parker

   Pages 48-69

6. Religion, Cohesion and Personal Life: ‘A homogeneous culture’

   • Ian Parker

   Pages 70-93

7. Mirrors of the Other: ‘Why are you asking these questions?’

   • Ian Parker

   Pages 94-115

8. Back Matter

   Pages 116-179

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This book is about the development of psychoanalysis and modern subjectivity in Japan, and addresses three key questions: 'Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?', 'What do we learn about Japan from its own forms of analysis?', and 'What do we learn about ourselves from Japan?'

• development
• psychoanalysis
• The Unconscious

' Japan in Analysis: Cultures of the Unconscious appeals both to an ardent follower of Japanese cultures, as well as to those interested in what happens to psychoanalysis in the globalization process.' - Psychology In Society

IAN PARKER is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is widely published, and his books include The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology (1989), Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic Discourse in Western Society (1997), Critical Discursive Psychology (2002) and Slavoj Žižek: A Critical Introduction (2004).

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