An intriguing psychological study of one of Japan's most infamous literary figures, Mishima-a prolific writer who disemboweled himself at what might have been the height of his creativity.
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Introduction
Disease, Misogyny, Narcissism, and Vengeance
Narcissistic Revenge and Suicide
Steel and Wax: Icarus and the Decay of the Angel
Culture, Perversion, and Patriotism
Homoeroticism, Schizoid Vengeance, and Misogyny in Forbidden
Colors
Impotence, the Feminine, and Death in the Temple of the Golden
Pavilion
Voyeurism and Rage in the Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the
Sea
Psychological Postscript
Conclusion
Chronology
References
JERRY S. PIVEN teaches at the New School for Social Research and New York University, where his courses focus on the psychology of death, evil, and religion.
.,." Piven has written a brilliant definitive exploration of the
life and writings of Mishima. It is an excellent insightful
psychobiography.... Anyone interested in psychohistory or
psychobiography could do well to study this book by Piven. Anyone
interested in some facets of Japanese culture as well as important
pieces of literary production would also gain significantly from
reading this book...."-Sander J. Breiner, M.D.F.A.P.A., Associate
Professor, Psychiatry, Michigan State University, Assistant
Professor, Psychiatry, Wayne State University
"It is truly a gratifying experience to find a duet of two
marvelous talents: one a world-renowned Japanese writer and the
other an American who, with unyielding scholarship and abundant
passion, explores the mystified psychological landscapes of the
novelist....Behind Piven's strenuous intellectual endeavor to
remove the mask of Mishima, there is always a quiet current of deep
compassion toward somebody whose soul was severely
damaged....Whereas Mishima ended his own life by mangling his body,
love and compassion enabled Piven to exercise his scholarly passion
and recover a sense of Mishima as a whole body and person. I am so
glad to see this peaceful work of words, which created another kind
of magic and beauty....Thirty-four years after his death, a true
attempt was made to touch Mishima psychoanalitically. And it was by
the hand of Piven."-Contemporary Psychoanalysis
?It is truly a gratifying experience to find a duet of two
marvelous talents: one a world-renowned Japanese writer and the
other an American who, with unyielding scholarship and abundant
passion, explores the mystified psychological landscapes of the
novelist....Behind Piven's strenuous intellectual endeavor to
remove the mask of Mishima, there is always a quiet current of deep
compassion toward somebody whose soul was severely
damaged....Whereas Mishima ended his own life by mangling his body,
love and compassion enabled Piven to exercise his scholarly passion
and recover a sense of Mishima as a whole body and person. I am so
glad to see this peaceful work of words, which created another kind
of magic and beauty....Thirty-four years after his death, a true
attempt was made to touch Mishima psychoanalitically. And it was by
the hand of Piven.?-Contemporary Psychoanalysis
?Piven presents a psychoanalytic case study of Mishima, drawing on
biographical evidence--particularly from John Nathan's Mishima: A
Biography (CH, Mar'75)--to argue for the traumatic, emotionally
injurious nature of Mishima's early childhood, spent largely in his
grandmother's sickroom....Recommended. All levels.?-Choice
"Piven presents a psychoanalytic case study of Mishima, drawing on
biographical evidence--particularly from John Nathan's Mishima: A
Biography (CH, Mar'75)--to argue for the traumatic, emotionally
injurious nature of Mishima's early childhood, spent largely in his
grandmother's sickroom....Recommended. All levels."-Choice
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