It is well known that Jung’s investigation of Eastern religions and cultures supplied him with an abundance of cross-cultural comparative material, useful to support his hypotheses of the existence of archetypes, the collective unconscious and other manifestations of psychic reality. However, the specific literature dealing with this aspect has previously been quite scarce. This unique edited collection brings together contributors writing on a range of topics that represent an introduction to the differences between Eastern and Western approaches to Jungian psychology.
Readers will discover that one interesting feature of this book is the realization of how much Western Jungians are implicitly or explicitly inspired by Eastern traditions – including Japanese – and, at the same time, how Jungian psychology – the product of a Western author – has been widely accepted and developed by Japanese scholars and clinicians.
Scholars and students of Jungian studies will find many new ideas, theories and practices gravitating around Jungian psychology, generated by the encounter between East and West. Another feature that will be appealing to many readers is that this book may represent an introduction to Japanese philosophy and clinical techniques related to Jungian psychology.
Table of contents:
Part 1: East and West
1. How Can We Survive in This Globalized Age? Exploring ego consciousness in the Western and the Japanese psyches Megumi Yama
2. The Ego and Self in East-West Psychology Lynlee Lyckberg
3. Cultural Reflection in Eastern and Western Tales of the Mirror David Fisher
4. East Meets West in World War II: Implications for Japan’s Maternal Culture Elly Lyn
Part 2: Images
5. Narcissism and Difference: Narcissism of Minor Differences Revisited Kazunori Kono
6. Encountering the other world in Japanese Manga: from Hyakki-yagyo-zu to Pocket Monsters Konoyu Nakamura
7. Ancient Chinese Hieroglyph: Archetype of Transformation of Jungian Psychology and Its Clinical Implication Adelina Wei Kwan Wong
8. Conversion of Saint Francis of Assisi: Guidance by Dreams and Encounter with Father Jun Kitayama
Part 3: Clinical Issues
9. Intimate relationships between women and men: psychosocial and post-Jungian perspectives Andrew Samuels
10. Rising Compassion. Revisiting ‘clinical empathy’ from F. Schleiermacher’s translational viewpoint Shoichi Kato
11. Ensou and Tree view therapy: Zen based psychotherapy from Hisamatsu and Kato theory Kojiro Miwa
12. Significance of drawings without a tree in response to the Baum test by schizophrenic patients: Interpreting drawings by schizophrenic patients from a Jungian perspective Himeka Matsushita
Part 4: Identity and Individuation
13. The House Imago and the Creation of Order Pi-Chen Hsu, Hirofumi Kuroda
14. From Dragons to Leaders: Latvian and Japanese Psyches, and an Organic Consciousness Evija Volfa Vestergaard
15. Emptiness and Diversity -psychological inner movement in western and eastern culture- Tsuyoshi Inomata
16. Un-written in Stone: Re-Imagining Individuation and the Objective Psyche with Japanese and American Landscapes
17. More Ancient Layers of the Japanese Psyche as Seen from the Tales and Dreams of the Ainu Mayumi Furukawa 18. Makoto Tsumori’s philosophy of care and education in relation to Jungian psychology Ryutaro Nishi