Cultural Complexes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan : Spokes of the Wheel

Thomas Singer presents a unique collection which examines cultural complexes in four parts of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. From ancestor worship in China to the "kimchi bitch" meme of South Korea, the wounded feminine in Taiwan and hikikomori in Japan, the contributors take a Jungian lens to aspects of culture and shine a light on themes including gender, archetypes, consciousness, social roles, and political relations. This insightful and timely book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, politics, sociology, and Asian studies. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts in practice and in training. Thomas Singer presents a unique collection which examines cultural complexes in four parts of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. From ancestor worship in China to the “kimchi-bitch” meme of South Korea, the search for the father in Taiwan and hikikomori in Japan, the contributors take a Jungian lens to aspects of culture and shine a light on themes including gender, archetypes, consciousness, social roles, and political relations. This insightful and timely book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas, politics, sociology, and Asian studies. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts in practice and in training. Cover 1 Half Title 4 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Permissions 10 Table of Contents 12 Acknowledgements 14 List of Illustrations 16 Foreword 20 Introduction 26 China 42 Chapter 1 Femininity in Chinese Culture: Archetype and Complex 44 Chapter 2 Ancestral Worship: A Cultural Complex of the Chinese 68 Chapter 3 Single Mothers in Marriage: Cultural and Individual Complexes in Displacement of Immigrant Mothers 96 Chapter 4 The Animus Archetype in Chinese Culture 116 Japan 140 Chapter 5 Postmodern Consciousness in the Novels of Haruki Murakami: An Emerging Cultural Complex 142 Chapter 6 Japanese Landscape and the Subject: On the Old and New States of Consciousness 158 Chapter 7 Agency, a Japanese Cultural Complex: Transformation of Jungian-Oriented Psychotherapy in an Age of Weaker Agency 182 Chapter 8 Voices from Nature and Withdrawal (Hikikomori) in Japanese Culture 200 Korea 218 Chapter 9 Seeking Hieros Gamos on the Korean Peninsula: Understanding the Political Situations of Two Koreas from a Jungian Perspective 220 Chapter 10 The Kimchi-Bitch Cultural Complex: Modern Misogyny, Memes, and Millennial Men in South Korea 246 Taiwan 278 Chapter 11 The History of the Search for the Father in Taiwan: A Cultural Complex 280 Chapter 12 An Orphan of the Patriarchy: A Cultural Complex in Taiwanese History 310 Chapter 13 The Wounded Feminine in Chinese Culture 330 Index 350 Asia;,Asian;,Jung;,Jungian;,culture;,politics;,media;,internet;,Eastern Asia,Asian,Jung,Jungian,culture,politics,media,internet,Eastern "Thomas Singer presents a unique collection which examines cultural complexes in four parts of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. From ancestor worship in China to the 'kimchi bitch' meme of South Korea, the wounded feminine in Taiwan and hikikomori in Japan, the contributors take a Jungian lens to aspects of culture and shine a light on themes including gender, archetypes, consciousness, social roles, and political relations"-- Provided by publisher