The introduction of psychoanalysis to China over the last twenty years brings a clash between Eastern and Western philosophical backgrounds. Chinese patients, therapists and trainees struggle with assumptions inherent in an analytic attitude steeped in Western ideas of individua…
When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early 20th century it ran up against competing models of the mind from Chinese tradition and the new revolutionary culture. The present volume investigates this clash and explores how writers and filmmakers negotiated with the implica…
"When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early 20th century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the new revolutionary culture. Chinese theorists of the mind - both traditional intellectuals and revolutionary psychologists - steadi…
