This book examines the haunting, sad, and lively depths of the Japanese soul by interpreting some of major themes in fairy tales. A Japanese Jungian psychologist credited with founding Japanese analytical and clinical psychology and a senior professor at Kyoto University, Hayao Kawai (1928–2007) addresses here such questions as why so many Japanese fairy tales end in a “Happily ever after” marriage, and why the female figure best expresses the culture’s ego and the country’s possible future. Throughout the book, Kawai delicately presents the multiple layers of the Japanese psyche.The American poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who lived for years in Japan, gaining familiarity with the soul of its culture and thought, introduces Kawai’s book to the reader.

The Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan

Literature & Fiction

Kawai, Hayao

Mythology & Folk Tales

Spring Publications

This book examines the haunting, sad, and lovely depths of the Japanese soul by studying their idiosyncratic figures: terrible women who eat people, obscene escapes from the Oni monsters, brother-sister bonds, undersea dragon palaces, movements between "worlds". We learn why so few tales end in a "happily-ever-after" marriage, and why the female figure best represents the culture's ego and possible future. 
 Prof. Kawai, the first Jungian analyst in Japan, has received many honors including distinguished literary prizes for this book. He now holds a most senior position in the Ministry of Culture.

Reece, Gerow (translator)

Reece, Sachiko (translator)

Spring Publications, Incorporated

Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan

Children's Books

In this engaging and intriguing work, renowned Japanese psychologist Hayao Kawai examines his own personal experience of how a Japanese became a Jungian psychoanalyst and how the Buddhism in him gradually reacted to it. Kawai reviews his method of psychotherapy and takes a fresh look at I in the context of Buddhism. His analysis, divided into four chapters, provides a new understanding of the human psyche from the perspective of someone rooted in the East. Kawai begins by contemplating his personal koan: Am I a Buddhist and/or a Jungian?” His honest reflections parallel Jung’s early skepticism about Buddhism and later his positive regard for Buddha’s teachings. He then relates how the individuation process is symbolically and meaningfully revealed in two philosophical and artistic picture series, one Eastern and one Western. After exploring the Buddhist conception of the ego and the self, which is the opposite of to the Western view, Kawai expands psychotherapy to include sitting in silence and holding contradictions or containing opposites. Drawing on his own experience as a psychoanalyst, Kawai concludes that true integration of East and West is both possible and impossible. Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy is an enlightening presentation that deepens the reader’s understanding of this area of psychology and Eastern philosophy.

Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Texas A&M University Press

Review\nThe Buddhist Priest Myoe: A Life of Dreams is a work about Myoe, a Japanese priest of the thirteenth century. It is about his life, his dreams, and his dream life, all of which are inseparable and ultimately one. In examining the personal odyssey of this extraordinary spirit, particularly the Dream Diary that Myoe maintained over a span of thirty-five years, Dr. Kawai transcends biography to explore the relationships between reason and experience, science and religion, sexuality and spirit-uality, individual creativity and community, and the world views of the East and West. The original Japanese edition received the Shincho Award for Learning and the Arts for its scholarly and literary excellence. -- Midwest Book Review\nLanguage Notes\nText: English (translation) 
Original Language: Japanese

The Buddhist Priest Myoe: A Life of Dreams

Religion & Spirituality

Lapis Pr

Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85767 In this engaging and intriguing work, renowned Japanese psychologist Hayao Kawai examines his own personal experience of how a Japanese became a Jungian psychoanalyst and how the Buddhism in him gradually reacted to it. Kawai reviews his method of psychotherapy and takes a fresh look at I in the context of Buddhism. His analysis, divided into four chapters, provides a new understanding of the human psyche from the perspective of someone rooted in the East. Kawai begins by contemplating his personal koan: “Am I a Buddhist and/or a Jungian?” His honest reflections parallel Jung’s early skepticism about Buddhism and later his positive regard for Buddha’s teachings. He then relates how the individuation process is symbolically and meaningfully revealed in two philosophical and artistic picture series, one Eastern and one Western. After exploring the Buddhist conception of the ego and the self, which is the opposite of to the Western view, Kawai expands psychotherapy to include sitting in silence and holding contradictions or containing opposites. Drawing on his own experience as a psychoanalyst, Kawai concludes that true integration of East and West is both possible and impossible. Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy is an enlightening presentation that deepens the reader’s understanding of this area of psychology and Eastern philosophy.

Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy (Volume 5) (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Two of Japan's foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk took place at a particular location at a particular moment in history, much of the content is timeless and universal. After popular acclaim in Japan, the transcript now makes its first appearance in English. Topics from the Contents: 
<ul>
<li>The Meaning of Commitment </li>
<li>Words or Images? </li>
<li>Making Stories </li>
<li>Answering Logically versus Answering Compassionately</li>
<li>Self-Healing and Novels </li>
<li>Marriage and 'Well-digging' </li>
<li>Curing and Living </li>
<li>Stories and the Body </li>
<li>The Relationship between a Work and its Author </li>
<li>Individuality and Universality </li>
<li>Violence and Expression </li>
<li>Where are We Headed?</li>
</ul>

Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai

MURAKAMI,HARUKI

History & Criticism

Daimon Verlag

Two of Japan's foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk took place at a particular location at a particular moment in history, much of the content is timeless and universal. After popular acclaim in Japan, the transcript now makes its first appearance in English.  Topics from the Contents: The Meaning of Commitment Words or Images? Making Stories Answering Logically versus Answering Compassionately Self-Healing and Novels Marriage and 'Well-digging' Curing and Living Stories and the Body The Relationship between a Work and its Author Individuality and Universality Violence and Expression Where are We Headed?

Kodomo to gakkō (Iwanami shinsho. Shin akaban) (Japanese Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Iwanami Shoten

Will to Meet [In Japanese Language]

Shinchosha

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