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Free Download Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture By Nina Cornyetz, J. Keith Vincent
2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0415691435 | PDF | 4 MB
How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan’s infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people were unanalyzable? And how are we to understand the re-awakening of collective memory occasioned by the sudden appearance of a Japanese Imperial soldier stumbling out of the jungle in Guam in 1972? In addressing these and other questions, the essays collected here theorize the relation of unconscious fantasy and perversion to discourses of nation, identity, and history in Japan. Against a tradition that claims that Freud’s method, as a Western discourse, makes a bad ‘fit’with Japan, this volume argues that psychoanalytic reading offers valuable insights into the ways in which ‘Japan’ itself continues to function as a psychic object. By reading a variety of cultural productions as symptomatic elaborations of unconscious and symbolic processes rather than as indexes to cultural truths, the authors combat the truisms of modernization theory and the seductive pull of culturalism. This volume also offers a much needed psychoanalytic alternative to the area studies convention that reads narratives of all sorts as "windows" offering insights into a fetishized Japanese culture. As such, it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese literature, history, culture, and psychoanalysis more generally.

Free Download Perversion of India’s Political Parlance By Sita Ram Goel
1995 | 65 Pages | ISBN: 8185990255 | PDF | 1 MB
As one surveys India’s political parlance, the first feature one notices is that while certain people and parties are described as Leftist, certain others are designated as Rightist. The second feature which invites attention is that these contradistinctive labels – Leftist and Rightist – have never been apportioned among people and parties concerned by an impartial tribunal like, say, the Election Commission. What has happened is that certain people and parties have appropriated one label – Leftist – for themselves, and reserved the other label – Rightist – for their opponents, without permission from or prior consultation with the latter. The third feature which one discovers very soon is that people and parties who call themselves Leftist, also claim to be progressive, revolutionary, socialist, secularist, and democratic. At the same time, they accuse the ‘Rightists’ of being reactionary, revivalist, capitalist, and fascist. The fourth feature of the Indian political scene needs a somewhat deeper look because it goes beyond the merely political and borders on the philosophical. The Leftists claim that they are committed to a scientific interpretation of the world-process including economic, social, political, and cultural developments, and that, therefore, their plans and programmes are not only pertinent but also profitable for the modern age. Simultaneously, they accuse that the ‘Rightists’ are addicted to an obscurantist view of the same world-process and, therefore, to such outmoded forms of economy, polity, and culture as are bound to be injurious at this stage of human history. One cannot help concluding that the dictionaries are not al all helpful in deciphering the Leftist language. The source of that language has to be sought elsewhere. There is no truth whatsoever in the Leftist claim that India’s prevailing political parlance took shape in the course of India’s fight for freedom against British imperialism.Table of Contents:-Chapter 1. Something Seriously Wrong SomewhereChapter 2. Words Which Defy DictonarieseChapter 3. The Sources of Leftist LanguageChapter 4. The Character of Leftist Language Chapter 5. The History of Leftist LanguageChapter 6. The Character of Leftist LanguageChapter 7. The Place of Mahatma GandhiChapter 8. Towards a Language of Indian Nationalism

Free Download The Perversion of Holocaust Memory : Writing and Rewriting the Past After 1989
by Judith M. Hughes
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1350281875 | 161 Pages | True PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Prof. Lisa Downing, "Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis"
English | ISBN: 1855759179 | 2006 | 364 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Perversion – its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults – was a central element of Freud’s lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud’s original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous – often contradictory – perspectives on its aetiology, development and treatment. The concept of perversion has also been significant for the disciplines of cultural studies and gender and queer theory, which have explored the creative and dissident powers of perversion, while expressing a suspicion of its operation as a pathological category. This bi-partite collection offers a series of perspectives on perversion by a range of psychoanalytic practitioners and theorists (edited by Dany Nobus), and a selection of papers by scholars who work with, or critique, psychoanalytic theories of perversion (edited by Lisa Downing). It stages a serious dialogue between psychoanalysis and its commentators on the controversial issue of non-normative sexuality.