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...Miri Nakamura Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture . Edited by Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent . London and New York : Routledge , 2010 . xiii, 338 pp. $145.00 (cloth); $44.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...

...Cynthia Ann Humes All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis . By Stanley N. Kurtz . New York : Columbia University Press , 1992 . xv, 306 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 256 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam . By Katherine Pratt Ewing . Durham, N.C. and London : Duke University Press , 1997 . xiv, 312 pp. $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 862 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Miri Nakamura Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture . Edited by Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent . London and New York : Routledge , 2010 . 338 pp. $145.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Perversion...

...Suk-Choo Chang Freud wa han'guk munhak (Freud and Korean Literature) . By Cho Dooyoung . Seoul : Ilchogak , 1999 . xv, 444 pp. ₩ 18,000 (paper). Han'guk chŏnt'ong munwhaŭi chŏngsin punsŏk (Psychoanalysis of Traditional Korean Culture) . By Kim Kwang-Iel . Seoul : Siinsa...

... and nationhood by Lydia Liu, and of Japanese identity as related to rice by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. At times, contributors' agendas are more stated than fulfilled through data analysis. As a reviewer coming from another discipline, psychoanalysis, I found the theoretical argumentation generally clear...

..., particularly for those who are interested in India or Japan. These chapters stand out despite the indignities of insensitive editing and careless publishing. KATHERINE P. EWING Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago CHINA AND INNER ASIA L'age d'or de la bourgeoisie chinoise [The golden age of the Chinese...

... connected, essays in which the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis are applied to the Indian religious tradition.” p. 396, lines 21–23, should read as follows: “This weakness, already manifest in his introduction to Religion in South Asia , a collection of essays on conversion and revival movements which...

... is a lengthy chapter on Sri Ramakrishna, a nineteenthcentury Hindu mystic. Ramakrishna is an apt subject for a revisionist psychoanalysis of ecstatic religious experience. His experiences (as recounted by Romain Rolland) figured prominently in Freud's assessment of mystical experience as no more than...

... but are not necessarily congruent with issues on a psychoanalytic level. Difficult as it is to achieve a multidisciplinary understanding, the author succeeds in his cross-cultural approach. The most rewarding part for me was a chapter on psychoanalysis in India and Japan. Roland worked with psychoanalysts in both...

... is a collection of seven closely connected essays (originally published separately) in which concepts and methods of psychoanalysis are applied to the Indian religious tradition. An unusually long and comprehensive bibliography (pp. 143-207) supplements these texts and reflects the intense, dedicated...

... on a psychoanalytic level. Difficult as it is to achieve a multidisciplinary understanding, the author succeeds in his cross-cultural approach. The most rewarding part for me was a chapter on psychoanalysis in India and Japan. Roland worked with psychoanalysts in both countries, the best avenue for him to enter...

... on the state of psychoanalysis in India after this initial phase. Perhaps it would have been prudent to give brief consideration to post-Bose developments in the book. Nevertheless, both volumes push the boundaries, further providing a glimpse of a unique sangam (a holy intersection) of Western and Indian...

.... Seoul: Ilchogak, 1999- xv, 444 pp. W 18,000 (paper). Han'guk chont'ong munwhaiii chongsin punsok (Psychoanalysis of Traditional Korean Culture). By K I M K W A N G - I E L . Seoul: Siinsa, 1984. 385 pp. W 3,900 (paper). According to the authors of the two books under review, psychoanalysis is a useful...

... this goal distinct from the first is clearly a difficult task. Kakar assumes, first of all, that Indian sacred practices are psychotherapies, and his own expertise with Western psychology appears to rely heavily on psychoanalysis. Given this, it is all too easy to slip into a mode of simply translating...

... issue with my use of psychoanalysis in the study of cultural symbols. She says that she is a "non-Freudian" and also a skeptic as far as psychoanalysis is concerned (p. 443). Yet she ends up by psychoanalyzing the author. In relation to one of my informants, Sada Sami, Egnor says: "In this rare...

... with my use of psychoanalysis in the study of cultural symbols. She says that she is a "non-Freudian" and also a skeptic as far as psychoanalysis is concerned (p. 443). Yet she ends up by psychoanalyzing the author. In relation to one of my informants, Sada Sami, Egnor says: "In this rare personage he...

... Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis. By STANLEY N . KURTZ. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xv, 306 pp. $45.00. In All the Mothers Are One, Stanley Kurtz asserts that many of the features of psychoanalysis commonly accepted as having general import must be recast...

... and writings of Girindrasekhar Bose, describing in detail the cultural meanings psychoanalysis acquired in its early years in India (p. 83). Nandy argues that Bose's response to Freud's theories was to use this dissenting Western school of thought to criticize the West itself. Using Bose as an interpretive...

... erratically. This book consummates his erraticity. It is subtitled A Psycho-Analytic Study. The reaction of the indologist is that it is either bad psychoanalysis, or else psychoanalysis is a bad science. The authors's thesis is simple: the Indian modal character is not punitive, as is that of Western man...