Takeo Doi
Takeo Doi ( Japanese 土 居 健 郎 , Doi Takeo ; born March 17, 1920 , † July 5, 2009 ) was a Japanese psychoanalyst .
Life
Takeo Doi studied medicine in Tokyo and worked as a psychiatrist in the USA for several years. He later headed various departments of the medical faculty at the University of Tokyo until he retired in 1980. He died in 2009 at the age of 89.
He was best known in the West for his influential analyzes and interpretations of the specifically Japanese psychological phenomenon of the Amae ("support") in his work Amae no Kōzō (about: The structure of support ).
In 1986 Doi published his work The Structure of the Ego , in which, building on the Amae conception, he explored the distinctions between honne and tatemae (inner feeling and outer facade); uchi (at home) and soto (outside) as well as omote (front) and ura (back) and presented them as important for understanding the Japanese psyche and Japanese society.
Works
- Takeo Doi: Amae - freedom in security. On the structure of the Japanese psyche . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-518-11128-0
- Takeo Doi: Amae: A key term for understanding the Japanese personality structure , in: Ulrich Menzel (ed.), In the shadow of the winner: Japan, Vol. 1: Culture and Society, Frankfurt / M. 1989, pp. 98-110
See also
Web links
- Obituary in on TimesOnline
- Literature by and about Takeo Doi in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doi, Takeo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 土 居 健 郎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese psychoanalyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 2009 |