Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-81901-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Psychoanalysis and Women Series

In this landmark collaboration, Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak chronical their long-standing collaboration and cultural exchange to survey the importance of familial relationships in Japan and India, exploring primal relations through a cross-cultural psychoanalytic lens.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basak, Jhuma

Kitayama, Osamu

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Familientherapie, Paartherapie, Gruppentherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword  Acknowledgement  Content  Introductions  PART 1 The prohibition of ‘Don’t Look’ in Mythology, Culture, & Clinical Contexts  1. Creating Bridges: Japanese ‘resistance’ and approaches  2. Depth-psychotherapy in Shame Culture  3. Re-weaving the story of the prohibition of ‘Don’t Look’  4. The Wounded Caretaker & Forced Guilt  5. Dependence and Transience: Beauty or Danger  6. Various Narratives Centring on “under the bridge”  7. Cultural Invocation of Maternal-fusion in Males – India and Japan  8. Vicissitudes of Transience in Covid Times – Reflection on ‘Shame Culture’, India  PART 2 The Triadic Tryst  9. Being Drawn into a Primal scene  10. Music Heard When One jumps into a Swamp  11. Enthralled Infancy in a Bed of Parental Tryst  PART 3 An Interface - ‘Listening to Asian Female Voices’  12. Jhuma Basak to Osamu Kitayama  13. Osamu Kitayama to Jhuma Basak

Über Autor(innen)

Osamu Kitayama is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Japan Psychoanalytic Society, Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University and President of Hakuoh University. He served as President of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society from 2016-2019 and continues to work with patients in private practice. He has authored numerous articles on culturally oriented psychoanalysis and books.

Jhuma Basak is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She has published on culture and gender. Over the past 20 years, she has presented at IPA Congresses along with the first Keynote from Asia-Pacific, 4th IPA-region at the 53rd IPA Congress (International Journal of Psychoanalysis). A past Co-chair of COWAP Asia-Pacific, she co-edited Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India: Violence, Safety and Survival (2021).