Murakami Haruki and the cultural materialism of multiple personality disorder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6194894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Whittier Treat (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-111 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-5803 • E-ISSN: 1469-932X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09555803.2012.741142 |
| OpenAlex | W2030191602 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
The execution of serial murderer Miyazaki Tsutomu in 2008 ended the local media obsession with Japan's most famous case of multiple personality disorder, but the riddle remains why fictional representations of MPD are so common in Japan, as well as the United States. Reviving the late Raymond Williams’ concept of ‘structure of feeling’ to explore MPD/DID's suggestive relationship with late-model capitalism, this essay analyzes the dissociative motifs in Murakami Haruki's The wind-up bird chronicle (Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru, 1992–1995) as emblematic of everyday life in contemporary Japan. Keywords: MPDDIDstructure of feelingWilliamscultural materialismMurakami Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers, and Jay Rubin and Kathy Lu, for commenting on an early draft
Materialism · Personality · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Medical History and Research · Philosophy · Postmodernism in Literature and Education · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology
Hystories
Marxism and literature
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Tense Past
Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures
The Long Revolution
The culture of narcissism
Questions of Consciousness
Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature
The Japanization of Modernity
Dances with Sheep
Murakami Haruki and the Naturalization of Modernity
Rewriting the Soul
Between the Technique of Living an Endless Routine and the Madness of Absolute Degree Zero
Bipolar Expeditions
Change and Theory in Raymond Williams's Structure of Feeling
Anti-Oedipus
The condition of postmodernity
Structures of feeling and socio-cultural formations
Culture and Finance Capital
Two Souls in One Body
Culture, community, nation
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |