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Japanese Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: The Making of a Relationship (2014)

Harding, Christopher (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 25, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 154-170
Publication date: 2014
Language: English

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Science and religion Psychoanalysis East Asia, civilization and culture Buddhism Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence 20th century Japan Kosawa Heisaku

This article explores the making of a relationship between Japanese psychoanalysis and Buddhism, in the life and work of Kosawa Heisaku. Kosawa did not work out the compatibility of psychoanalysis with Buddhism in abstract, theoretical terms; rather, he understood them as two different articulations of the same practical approach to living well. He saw this approach in action in the lives of Freud and Shinran, the latter a thirteenth-century Japanese Buddhist reformer. For Kosawa, both individuals exemplified the `true religious state of mind', at the achievement of which Kosawa understood psychoanalytic psychotherapy as ideally aiming. This article uses newly available documentary and interview material to examine the historical dynamics both of Kosawa's work in this area and of the broader `religion-psy dialogue' of which it is an early example.

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