Koichi Togashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4495845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koichi Togashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koichi |
| FAMILY NAME | Togashi |
| SIGNATURE | TOGASHI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Konan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8923-5054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Seeing psychoanalytic culture from an Asian perspective
No modern psychoanalyst would claim that psychoanalysis is a universal theory that explains the truth of the human mind beyond cultural differences. But have our beliefs really changed? I think not. Non-Western analysts, including myself, prefer to examine their own traditions from a psychoanalytic perspective, and use psychoanalysis as the theoretical framework to explain their own cultures. This essay is a critical examination of my own perspec…
The Desire to Colonize and the Fear of Being Colonized: A Problem of Therapists’ Vulnerability
When strangers encounter one another – as individuals or nations – they cannot escape finding the other’s ways and values unfamiliar and awkward. A frequent result is that they objectify and demonize the “other,” and, if they have the power, seek to “enlighten,” conquer, or destroy them. Does this same dynamic play out between therapists and patients? In this presentation, I conclude that it does, and that a colonizer-colonized relationship is cr…
Trauma, Contingency, and The Psychoanalytic Zero
This article begins the examination of suffering and its relation to the experience of being human. Trauma is neither an experience nor an actual event, but the beginning of the “human” condition. The argument is illustrated through interwoven narratives of transgenerational trauma that arose in the psychoanalytic treatment of a traumatized patient whose parents were atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It describes the patient’s and …
Unvoiced Human Conversation of I-Thou: A Commentary on Kottler’s paper, “When the Echoes of Red and Blue Turn to Green: Disentangling Alienated Alter-Ego Self Experiences Through a Collaborative and C…
Kottler’s paper is beyond Togashi and Kotter’s original understanding of Kohut’s twinship/alter-ego, with exceptional sensitivity for clinical work. Her article successfully illustrates the essential process of the Psychology of Being Human. In this discussion, I add a few words to her description of the therapeutic process with her patient “Ben,” and describe an oscillation between “I-Thou” and “I–It” occurring within the context of an alter-ego…
Surrender and Silence: The Problem of Narrative and Non-Narrative in Psychoanalysis
Emmanuel Ghent’s innovative view of surrender developed out of his Buddhist beliefs and special interest in Eastern philosophies, and has come to be one of the most significant concepts in contemporary psychoanalysis, particularly among relational and intersubjective thinkers. Drawing on my own Japanese cultural background, I attempt to relate Ghent’s surrender to emptiness—as conceived in traditional Eastern philosophies—and narrative in psychoa…
Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human
Psychic pain as a result of disrupted narcissistic fantasies among Japanese immigrants: A self-psychological study of the stress and trauma of immigrating
This representative case study investigates three Japanese immigrants' unconscious narcissistic fantasies. Unlike traditional psychoanalytic research on immigration, which views the central factor of psychological distresses arising from immigrating as object loss, mourning work, and identity re-formation, this study finds that the essential factor of an immigrant's psychological distress is the injury to the narcissistic fantasy. An immigrant ar…
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Psychic pain as a result of disrupted narcissistic fantasies among Japanese immigrants: A self-psychological study of the stress and trauma of immigrating
This representative case study investigates three Japanese immigrants' unconscious narcissistic fantasies. Unlike traditional psychoanalytic research on immigration, which views the central factor of psychological distresses arising from immigrating as object loss, mourning work, and identity re-formation, this study finds that the essential factor of an immigrant's psychological distress is the injury to the narcissistic fantasy. An immigrant ar…
Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human
Unvoiced Human Conversation of I-Thou: A Commentary on Kottler’s paper, “When the Echoes of Red and Blue Turn to Green: Disentangling Alienated Alter-Ego Self Experiences Through a Collaborative and C…
Kottler’s paper is beyond Togashi and Kotter’s original understanding of Kohut’s twinship/alter-ego, with exceptional sensitivity for clinical work. Her article successfully illustrates the essential process of the Psychology of Being Human. In this discussion, I add a few words to her description of the therapeutic process with her patient “Ben,” and describe an oscillation between “I-Thou” and “I–It” occurring within the context of an alter-ego…
Surrender and Silence: The Problem of Narrative and Non-Narrative in Psychoanalysis
Emmanuel Ghent’s innovative view of surrender developed out of his Buddhist beliefs and special interest in Eastern philosophies, and has come to be one of the most significant concepts in contemporary psychoanalysis, particularly among relational and intersubjective thinkers. Drawing on my own Japanese cultural background, I attempt to relate Ghent’s surrender to emptiness—as conceived in traditional Eastern philosophies—and narrative in psychoa…
Trauma, Contingency, and The Psychoanalytic Zero
This article begins the examination of suffering and its relation to the experience of being human. Trauma is neither an experience nor an actual event, but the beginning of the “human” condition. The argument is illustrated through interwoven narratives of transgenerational trauma that arose in the psychoanalytic treatment of a traumatized patient whose parents were atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It describes the patient’s and …
The Desire to Colonize and the Fear of Being Colonized: A Problem of Therapists’ Vulnerability
When strangers encounter one another – as individuals or nations – they cannot escape finding the other’s ways and values unfamiliar and awkward. A frequent result is that they objectify and demonize the “other,” and, if they have the power, seek to “enlighten,” conquer, or destroy them. Does this same dynamic play out between therapists and patients? In this presentation, I conclude that it does, and that a colonizer-colonized relationship is cr…
Seeing psychoanalytic culture from an Asian perspective
No modern psychoanalyst would claim that psychoanalysis is a universal theory that explains the truth of the human mind beyond cultural differences. But have our beliefs really changed? I think not. Non-Western analysts, including myself, prefer to examine their own traditions from a psychoanalytic perspective, and use psychoanalysis as the theoretical framework to explain their own cultures. This essay is a critical examination of my own perspec…
Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (4 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)