Perversion and modern Japan : psychoanalysis, literature, culture / edited by Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent.

Date:
2010
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Description

'Perversion and Modern Japan' focuses on the psychoanalytic approach to the study of modern Japan. Using a wide range of psychoanalytic approaches the contributors to this book have brought together chapters on everything from the Ajase complex to underpants, from fascist modernism in literature to internet-based suicide pacts.

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Physical description

xiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

Introduction / Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent -- Speculations of murder / Bruce Suttmeier -- Japan's lost decade and its two recoveries / Carl Cassegard -- The corporeal principles of the national polity / Yutaka Nagahara -- Pelluses/phani / Ayelet Zohar -- Penisular cartography / Nina Cornyetz -- Two ways to play fort-da / Margherita Long -- The double scission of Mishima Yukio / Gavin Walker -- Navigating the inner sea / Dawn Lawson -- In the flesh / Irena Hayter -- Sexuality and narrative in Sōseki's Kokoro / J. Keith Vincent -- Exhausted by their battles with the world / Christopher Hill -- Freud, Lacan and Japan / Kazushige Shingu -- Packaging desires / Jonathan E. Abel.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-328) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PQW.26.AA9-10
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ISBN

  • 9780415469104
  • 0415469104
  • 9780203880425
  • 0203880420