Writing About Trauma and Disasters – An Analysis of Hōjōki

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.164How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hōjōki; Kamo no Chōmei; recluse literature; trauma analysis; cognitive psychology

Abstract

Hōjōki is a Japanese classic composed by Kamo no Chōmei in the early Kamakura period. The first part recounts the traumatic experiences of disasters in Chōmei’s early life, and the second part depicts his life in seclusion in his late years. This paper summarizes previous research that approaches Hōjōki as a religious artistic text, and provides new insight by introducing models in cognitive psychology and psychoanalysis to reinterpret Hōjōki as Chōmei’s attempt to work through trauma.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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AU  - Hairong He
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DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Writing About Trauma and Disasters – An Analysis of Hōjōki
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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