The myth of Japanese uniqueness
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The myth of Japanese uniqueness
（The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series）
Routledge , Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, 1990, c1986
Reprinted ed
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First published in 1986 by Croom Helm
"New in paperback 1990."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Japan there exists a vast and intricate body of theory devoted to the analysis of Japanese identity. This tradition of thought is known as the "nihonjinron" and ranges from the highly academic to the informal writings of journalists. These discussions of Japanese identity presuppose that the Japanese are radically different from other peoples in their cultural, social and psychological makeup. This book is a critical introduction to the "nihonjinron". It analyzes the major assumptions, linguistic, sociological and philosophical, underlying such works and exposes their ideological structure. Placing particular emphasis upon psychoanalysis, the book argues that the "nihonjinron" constitute a coherent ideology of nationalism and holds that they should be treated as a mythological system rather than as serious contributions to social science.
Table of Contents
- On the otherness of other
- the quest for identity
- a uniqueness rare in the world
- the dialetics of difference
- the warp of language
- the linguistics of silence
- silence and illusion
- omnia vincit amae
- the complex of Japanese psychoanalysis
- the shame of shame culture
- monkey business
- on identity as difference.
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