Myth of Japanese Uniqueness (Routledge Revivals)

by PeterDale (Author)

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  2012

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  The `nihonjinron' is a body of writing and thought which constitutes a major and highly thought of academic industry in Japan. It analyses the Japanese identity and presupposes that the Japanese differ radically from other people in their make-up. It believes that their uniqueness is due to linguistic, sociological and philosophical differences.

  First published in 1988, this book is a critical analysis of the thought on which the `nihonjinron' is based. Placing particular emphasis upon psychoanalysis, which constitutes the centrepiece of the book, Peter Dale reasons that the `nihonjinron' should be treated as a mythological system.