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Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan
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Hayao Kawai
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Addresses Japanese culture insightfully, exploring the depths of the psyche from both Eastern and Western perspectives, an endeavor the author is uniquely suited to undertake. The present volume is based upon five lectures originally delivered at the prestigious round-table Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. Readers interested in Japanese myth and religion, comparative cultural studies, depth psychology or clinical psychology will all find Professor Kawai’s offerings to be remarkably insightful while at the same time practical for their own daily work. (less)
The well-known Japanese author, university professor and Zürich-trained Jungian analyst, Hayao Kawai, presents here the long-awaited second of his works in English. Originally presented as lectures at the historic Eranos Conferences in Ascona, this book describes five Japanese fairy tales, insightfully examined from Eastern and Western vantage points by an author intimately familiar with both.
Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan addresses Japanese culture insightfully, exploring the depths of the psyche from both Eastern and Western perspectives, an endeavor the author is uniquely suited to undertake. The present volume is based upon five lectures originally delivered at the prestigious round-table Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. Readers interested in Japanese myth and religion, comparative cultural studies, depth psychology or clinical psychology will all find Professor Kawai’s offerings to be remarkably insightful while at the same time practical for their own daily work.
From the contents:
– Interpenetration: Dreams in Medieval Japan
– Bodies in the Dream Diary of Myôe
– Japanese Mythology: Balancing the Gods
– Japanese Fairy Tales: The Aesthetic Solution
– Torikaebaya: A Tale of Changing Sexual Roles
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Paperback, 158 pages
Published January 1st 1995 by Daimon Verlag
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Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan
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3856305440 (ISBN13: 9783856305444)
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English
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Nov 28, 2016Jonathan Schildbach rated it liked it · review of another edition
Kawai is known as an expert in Jungian analysis. I bought this because Marie Mutsuki Mockett referenced the author in "Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye." I think I was expecting a bit more depth to the analysis--or more 'meat' overall--whether that be in great new tellings of these stories, or incredible insights. Instead, it comes across as somebody reviewing ancient stories, and throwing out a few ideas. This book is based on five different lectures by the author, but they feel a lot like when a professor gets into a topic, and realizes s/he is running out of time. Kawai lays out the basics (very brief versions, typically) of a Japanese myth, then provides very limited analysis of the overall meaning, or how it fits into the Japanese culture, or how it contrasts with a similar Western story or ideal, like the lecture hour was devoted to the set up, and the analysis never fully happened because the clock ran out. It took me a long time to get through this book, even though there are only about 150 pages of text, basically because it just wasn't all that interesting. Fortunately, it's divided into very short sections, so there are plenty of stopping points along the way. Maybe it would have been better to hear all of this in their original format as lectures. (less)
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Addresses Japanese culture insightfully, exploring the depths of the psyche from both Eastern and Western perspectives, an endeavor the author is uniquely suited to undertake. The present volume is based upon five lectures originally delivered at the prestigious round-table Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. Readers interested in Japanese myth and religion, comparative cultural studies, depth psychology or clinical psychology will all find Professor Kawai's offerings to be remarkably insightful while at the same time practical for their own daily work.
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E. V. Vestergaard
5.0 out of 5 stars Cultural differences of psychological processes
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2019
This book is very helpful to those psychologists who understand that the Western models of perceiving the psychological realities do not apply to all cultures. The authors gives a thorough analysis of the workings of the Japanese psyche.
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D. Limey
1.0 out of 5 stars Not a collection of Fairy Tales
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I made the mistake of assuming that this would be a collection of Japanese folk stories. It is not. It is a self referential Jungian analysis by a confused westernized Japanese psychoanalyst.
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pamphlétaire
5.0 out of 5 stars discover the sources of the imagination in Japan
Reviewed in France on September 20, 2014
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It is a rare book on a little-known subject written by a specialist in the study of the influence of myths on mentalities. Here in Japan, especially the role of Shintoism.
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