Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415469104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str.

Cornyetz Nina

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Perversion and Modern Japan is the first book to focus 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.

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Introduction: Japan as Screen Memory: Psychoanalysis and History Nina Cornyetz  1. Speculations of Murder: Ghostly Dreams, Poisonous Frogs, and the Return of Yokoi Shôichi Bruce Suttmeier  2. Japan’s Lost Decade and Its Two Recoveries: On Sawaragi Noi, Japanese Neo-Pop and Anti-War Activism Carl Cassegard  3. The Corporeal Principle of the National Polity: The Rhetoric of the National Polity, or, the Nation as Memory Machine Yutaka Nagahara  4. Penuses/ Phallises: The Multiplication, Displacement and Appropriations of the Phallus Ayelet Zohar  5. Penisular Cartography: Topology in Nakagami Kenji’s "Kishu" Nina Cornyetz  6. Two Ways to Play Fort-Da: With Freud and Tanizaki in Yoshino Margherita Long  7. The Double Scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and Anxieties in the Autofictional Machine Gavin Walker  8. Navigating the Inner Sea: Utsumi Bunzô’s Affects in Ukigumo Dawn Lawson  9. In the Flesh: The Historical Unconscious of Ishikawa Jun’s "Fugen" Irena Hayter  10. Sexuality and Narrative in Sôseki’s "Kokoro" Keith Vincent  11. Exhausted by their Battles with the World: Neuraesthenia and Civilization Critique in Early Twentieth Century Japan Christopher Hill  12. Freud, Lacan and Japan Kazushige Shingu