Cultural Complexes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

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, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst, practicing in San Francisco, USA.

Foreword John Beebe Introduction Thomas Singer Part I. 1. Femininity in Chinese Culture: Archetype and Complex Gao Lan and Shen Heyong 2. Ancestral Worship: A Cultural Complex of the Chinese Zhang Lei, Hou Yingchun, and Li Xianghui 3. Single Mothers in Marriage: Cultural and Individual Complexes in Displacement of Immigrant Mothers Gong Xi 4. The Animus Archetype in Chinese Culture Xu Jun Part II. 5. Postmodern Consciousness in the Novels of Haruki Murakami: An Emerging Cultural Complex Toshio Kawai 6. Japanese Landscape and the Subject: On New and Old States of Consciousness Yasuhiro Tanaka 7. Agency, a Japanese Cultural Complex: Transformation of Jungian-Oriented Psychotherapy in an Age of Weaker Agency Chihiro Hatanaka 8. Voices from Nature and Withdrawal (Hikikomori) in Japanese Culture Nanae Takenaka Part III. 9. Seeking Hieros Gamos on the Korean Peninsula: Understanding the Political Situations of Two Koreas from a Jungian Perspective Nami Lee 10. The Kimchi-Bitch Cultural Complex: Modern Misogyny, Memes, and Millennial Men in South Korea Amalya Layla Ashman Part IV. 11. The History of the Search for the Father in Taiwan: A Cultural Complex Hao-Wei Wang 12. An Orphan of the Patriarchy: A Cultural Complex in Taiwanese History Suchen Hung and Hungchin Wei 13. The Wounded Feminine in Chinese Culture Liza J. Ravitz