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Cutting through the ideology and politics of sacred groves at Shinto Shrines: A book review of Shinto, nature, and ideology in contemporary Japan: Making sacred forests

Cutting through the ideology and politics of sacred groves at Shinto Shrines: A book review of... CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 261 the spread of western psychiatric views of human psyche, which expelled madness away from our lives. If English readers of this book agree with the author on this point, they can grasp fruitful implications in it and apply them to their own society. The author chose to search for a key to break through this in Japanese cultural tradition and also in pop culture. This is an attempt to point out unique advantages of Japanese consciousness, so I call it one variation of psychological Nihonjinron. I stated above that this book has something different from those by classical Jungians. But I also find it very Jungian when I hear echoes of James Hillman’s work here and there in the volume. James Hillman (1926–2011) is one of the representative Jungian psychologists in the U.S., known as the founder of ‘Archetypal Psychology.’ Apart from his provocative and tricky writing style, Akita’s argument seems to have much in common with Hillman’s. Akita writes that he incorporates into his work the ‘perspective of soul’ (p. 67), which phrase Hillman uses in his Archetypal Psychology (1981), where Hillman advocates a psychology of soul and emphasizes the importance of image, metaphor or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Cutting through the ideology and politics of sacred groves at Shinto Shrines: A book review of Shinto, nature, and ideology in contemporary Japan: Making sacred forests

Nelson, John
Contemporary Japan , Volume 30 (2): 5 – Jul 3, 2018
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Cutting through the ideology and politics of sacred groves at Shinto Shrines: A book review of Shinto, nature, and ideology in contemporary Japan: Making sacred forests

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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 261 the spread of western psychiatric views of human psyche, which expelled madness away from our lives. If English readers of this book agree with the author on this point, they can grasp fruitful implications in it and apply them to their own society. The author chose to search for a key to break through this in Japanese cultural tradition and also in pop culture. This is an attempt to point out unique advantages of Japanese consciousness, so I call it one variation of...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2018 John Nelson
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1869-2737
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1869-2729
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10.1080/18692729.2018.1444323
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Abstract

CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 261 the spread of western psychiatric views of human psyche, which expelled madness away from our lives. If English readers of this book agree with the author on this point, they can grasp fruitful implications in it and apply them to their own society. The author chose to search for a key to break through this in Japanese cultural tradition and also in pop culture. This is an attempt to point out unique advantages of Japanese consciousness, so I call it one variation of psychological Nihonjinron. I stated above that this book has something different from those by classical Jungians. But I also find it very Jungian when I hear echoes of James Hillman’s work here and there in the volume. James Hillman (1926–2011) is one of the representative Jungian psychologists in the U.S., known as the founder of ‘Archetypal Psychology.’ Apart from his provocative and tricky writing style, Akita’s argument seems to have much in common with Hillman’s. Akita writes that he incorporates into his work the ‘perspective of soul’ (p. 67), which phrase Hillman uses in his Archetypal Psychology (1981), where Hillman advocates a psychology of soul and emphasizes the importance of image, metaphor or

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Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2018

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