Freud and the Far East - 9780765706942

Freud and the Far EastPsychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Japan, and Korea\nAuthor(s): Salman Akhtar, June Cai, Lois Choi-Kain, June Chu, Daniel Freeman, Ming Dong Gu, Do-Un Jeong, Mikyum Kim, Douglas Kirsner, Osamu Kitayama\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Jason Aronson Publishers, United States\nImprint: Jason Aronson Publishers\nISBN-13: 9780765706942, 978-0765706942\nSynopsis\nThis book is a lexical ambassador with the dual responsibility of bridging the West and East and enhancing psychoanalytic conceptualization in the course of such an encounter. By juxtaposing the familiar with the unfamiliar, it seeks to enrich our understanding of both. Within its pages, distinguished psychoanalysts from East and West weave a fine and colorful tapestry of the ubiquitous and idiosyncratic, the plebian and profound, and the neurotically-inclined and culturally-nuanced. They provide meticulous historical accounts of the development of psychoanalysis in Japan, Korea, a.