Perversion and Modern Japan Psychoanalysis Literature Culture 1st Edition by Nina Cornyetz, J Keith Vincent ISBN 0415691435 9780415691437

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ISBN 10: 0415691435

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Author: Nina Cornyetz, J. Keith Vincent

How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan’s infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people were unanalyzable? 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. 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’ itself continues to function as a psychic object.

By reading a variety of cultural productions as symptomatic elaborations of unconscious and symbolic processes rather than as indexes to cultural truths, the authors combat the truisms of modernization theory and the seductive pull of culturalism. This volume also offers a much needed psychoanalytic alternative to the area studies convention that reads narratives of all sorts as “windows” offering insights into a fetishized Japanese culture. As such, it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese literature, history, culture, and psychoanalysis more generally.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Speculations of Murder: Ghostly Dreams, Poisonous Frogs, and the Return of Yokoi Shôichi
Chapter 2: Japan’s Lost Decade and Its Two Recoveries: On Sawaragi Noi, Japanese Neo-Pop and Anti-War Activism
Chapter 3: The Corporeal Principle of the National Polity: The Rhetoric of the National Polity, or, the Nation as Memory Machine
Chapter 4: Penuses/Phallises: The Multiplication, Displacement and Appropriations of the Phallus
Chapter 5: Penisular Cartography: Topology in Nakagami Kenji’s “Kishu”
Chapter 6: Two Ways to Play Fort-Da: With Freud and Tanizaki in Yoshino
Chapter 7: The Double Scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and Anxieties in the Autofictional Machine
Chapter 8: Navigating the Inner Sea: Utsumi Bunzô’s Affects in Ukigumo
Chapter 9: In the Flesh: The Historical Unconscious of Ishikawa Jun’s “Fugen”
Chapter 10: Sexuality and Narrative in Sôseki’s “Kokoro”
Chapter 11: Exhausted by their Battles with the World: Neuraesthenia and Civilization Critique in Early Twentieth Century Japan
Chapter 12: Freud, Lacan and Japan

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