In Search of Self in India and Japan: Toward a Cross-cultural PsychologyDrawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, a prominent American psychoanalyst explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. A series of fascinating case studies illustrates Alan Roland's argument: the "familial self," rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches and contrasts strongly with the Western "individualized self." In perceptive and sympathetic terms Roland describes the emotional problems that occur when Indians and Japanese encounter Western culture and the resulting successful integration of new patterns that he calls the "expanding self." Of particular interest are descriptions of the special problems of women in changing society and of the paradoxical relationship of the "spiritual self" of Indians and Japanese to the "familial self.? |
Contents
Introduction The Familial Self the Individualized Self and the Spiritual Self | 3 |
The Indian and Japanese Self and Social Change | 15 |
Indian Identity and Colonialism | 17 |
Psychoanalysis in India and Japan | 55 |
The Familial Self Individualization and the Modernization Process | 89 |
The Dynamics of Change in Urban Indian and Japanese Women | 146 |
The Indian Self Reflections in the Mirror of the American Life Style | 195 |
The Indian and Japanese Self Theoretical Perspectives | 207 |
The Indian Familial Self in Its Social and Cultural Contexts | 209 |
The Indian and Japanese Familial Self | 242 |
The Spiritual Self Continuity and Counterpoint to the Familial Self | 289 |
Conclusions Psychoanalysis in Civilizational Perspective | 312 |
GLOSSARY | 335 |
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In Search of Self in India and Japan: Toward a Cross-cultural Psychology Alan Roland Limited preview - 1988 |
In Search of Self in India and Japan: Toward a Cross-cultural Psychology Alan Roland No preview available - 1988 |