[Symposium 59] Cultural Responses to WW2 in Japan: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Intercultural Dialogue

[SY-59-01] On the Myth of "Izanaki and Izanami": Mythological Thinking and Inability to Mourn after WW2 in Japan

*Ritsu Yonekura², Chizuko Tezuka³, Kai Ogimoto¹, Eugen Koh⁴ (1.Sagami Women's University(Japan), 2.Nihon University(Japan), 3.Independent(Japan), 4.Australian National University(Australia))

Keywords:

inability to mourn,Japanese mythology social unconscious,war responsibility,psychoanalysis