The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 19: Essays in Honor of George A. De Vos (Psychoanalytic Study of Society)

Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos, a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco, P. Lerner), and De Vos's own reminiscences, are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They include a demonstration of the usefulness of projective tests in the psychodiagnostic evaluation of schizophrenia (J. Stone, P. Wilson & B. Boyer); an examination of the role of historical events in the development of Chinese and Japanese personality characteristics (J. Connor); a review of the impact of Freudian and Jungian thought in India (S. Kakar); and a study of loss and grief in a community of the North American Great Plains (H. Stein). THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF SOCIETY 4 Copyright 5 Contents 12 Prologue 14 Preface 16 1. A Tribute to George A. De Vos 28 2. A Personal Odyssey 32 3. Psychological Anthropology: A Professional Odyssey 50 4. Ambivalent Liaisons: George A. De Vos and the Psychoanalytic Study of Society 116 5. The Rorschach Test, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Cross-Cultural Research 150 6. Facets of Personality Organization and Transference Manifestations in a Case of Schizophrenia 166 7. Identity and the Constant Self 208 8. The Cultural, Historical Antecedents of Chinese and Japanese Personality Characteristics and Nineteenth Century Modernization 240 9. Religious Protest Movement in Northern Finland: A Psychological Study on Laestadianism 268 10. Encounters of the Psychological Kind: Freud, Jung, and India 290 11. Massive Social Change and the Experience of Loss: A Study in the Cultural Psychology of Mourning in a North American Great Plains Community 300 12. Freud on Jokes: A Postconscious Evaluation 338 13. Freud and Hasidism 362 Author Index 376 Subject Index 384 Essays in Honor of George A. De Vos