Geoffrey H Blowers
Biographic Data
| ID | 742455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey H Blowers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey H |
| FAMILY NAME | Blowers |
| SIGNATURE | BLOWERS G H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tributes to Jingyuan Zhang and Psychoanalysis in China
Psychology Moving East
Emulation vs. indigenization in the reception of western psychology in Republican China
The present study examines the practice of empirical psychology in China during the Republican period using a content analysis of its journals. By seeking answers to questions of what kinds of psychology from the West first attracted the Chinese; whether they found a way of developing a psychology more in tune to their own cultural assumptions of selfhood; and to what uses they felt the new discipline could be put, it shows the extent to which it…
Remembering Joseph Brozek (1913-2004)
To be a big shot or to be shot
The radical behaviourist Zing-Yang Kuo's other career reveals a figure who moved in the circles of senior university administrators and significant political figures.When he left China for Hong Kong after WWII, he did no more scientific research but embarked upon an autobiography and a study of Chinese national character.A chance renewal of his acquaintance with Leonard Carmichael led to the simultaneous publication of several papers based on wor…
To be a big shot or to be shot
The radical behaviorist Zing-Yang Kuo's other career reveals a figure who moved in the circles of senior university administrators and significant political figures. When he left China for Hong Kong after World War II (WWII), he did no more scientific research but embarked on an autobiography and a study of Chinese national character. A chance renewal of his acquaintance with Leonard Carmichael led to the simultaneous publication of several artic…
Ohtsuki Kenji and the Beginnings of Lay Analysis in Japan
The authors outline the major role played by Ohtsuki Kenji in the formation of the Japanese Psychoanalytic Society. Unlike the other pioneers of psychoanalysis in Japan, Ohtsuki never went abroad or met Freud. He was a literature graduate who taught himself the fundamentals of psychoanalysis. He organised the translation of Freud's complete works, formed a psychoanalytic training institute and started a journal that carried English‐language edito…
Learning from others
Recent research by Chinese and Japanese historians of psychology and education suggests that it was educational reformers' copying of Japan's education system in the first decade of the twentieth century that provided the context for modern psychology in China to develop.Psychology, although not well understood by educationalists, was thought to be useful to teacher training.In 1902 Japanese psychology teachers came to China and some textbooks we…
The prospects for a Jungian psychology in China
The possibility of a Jungian psychology developing in China is considered by a brief historical excursion through the early translations of psychoanalytical works. Translation problems and the contentious nature of some of Freud's ideas have made for their difficult reception in China. The inattention to Jung's ideas in universities in the west in the past, and a reliance on science based subjects by Chinese students studying abroad, have meant l…
Chen Li
Chen Li
Chen Li is one of a small group of psychologists in China who trained abroad early in their careers, returned to teach and do research, and continued doing so into later life beyond normal retirement age. His contacts with a number of prominent psychologists in England and Germany in the 1930s, and his inadvertent position at the center of a political row in China in the 1960s, leading to the shutting down of psychology for 10 years, made him his…
Le rejet ou la distorsion [La psychanalyse en Chine avant 1949]
Freud'sDeshi
This paper presents an account of four Japanese men, three of whom had an audience with Freud and who, with differing experiences and ambitions, returned to Japan to practice and develop psychoanalysis. Only two received any formal training, and two were strongly influenced by Buddhist thought. Freud gave no clear sign as to whom to appoint as leader, leaving the situation unsettled. This may have contributed to the continuing split and rivalry b…
Freud en Chine
Blowers Geoffrey H., Orienter Andrée, Dupont Judith. Freud en Chine : l'accueil inégal de la psychanalyse. In: Le Coq-Héron, n°139, 1995. Histoires de la psychanalyse aux quatre coins du monde. pp. 37-47
Les références chinoises de Freud
Tout au long de son oeuvre, Freud s'est maintes fois référé à la culture et à la langue chinoises pour étayer ses idées de diverses façons. Cependant, une de ses lettres, récemment découverte, adressée à un intellectuel chinois qui avait exprimé son intérêt pour les références que Freud faisait au chinois, conduit à se demander quelle compréhension avait celui-ci de la culture et de la langue chinoises ? La pratique chinoise traditionnelle du ban…
Freud's China connection
Freud made several references to Chinee culture and language throughout his work, to support his ideas in a variety of ways. However, a recently discovered letter from him to a Chinese intellectual who had expressed an itnerest in his use of Chinese prompts speculation about the extent to which Freud understood the culture and the language. The traditional Chinese practice of footbinding would apper not to be explained by his theory of fetishism,…
Psychology Moving East
Cognitive style, set and sorting strategy
Cognitive style was examined as a predictor of subjects' preference for response strategy, as opposed to attainment of a given response level, in a sorting task. Frame dependence, as scored by Nyborg's analysis of rod and frame test performance, and morphophilic sorting behaviour were compared in 20 normal subjects, and found to be correlated at the P
The Archimedes spiral after‐effect as a test of arousability
The idea of the Archimedes spiral after‐effect (SAE) providing an estimate of the change of arousal that can be induced in an individual by stimulation (i.e. arousability) has been derived from personality studies of normal subjects and psychiatric patients. However, the concept of arousability has been formulated from group studies and the results from normal subjects are equivocal. An experiment was therefore conducted to test the hypothesis th…
The prospects for a Jungian psychology in China
The possibility of a Jungian psychology developing in China is considered by a brief historical excursion through the early translations of psychoanalytical works. Translation problems and the contentious nature of some of Freud's ideas have made for their difficult reception in China. The inattention to Jung's ideas in universities in the west in the past, and a reliance on science based subjects by Chinese students studying abroad, have meant l…
Le rejet ou la distorsion [La psychanalyse en Chine avant 1949]
To be a big shot or to be shot
The radical behaviorist Zing-Yang Kuo's other career reveals a figure who moved in the circles of senior university administrators and significant political figures. When he left China for Hong Kong after World War II (WWII), he did no more scientific research but embarked on an autobiography and a study of Chinese national character. A chance renewal of his acquaintance with Leonard Carmichael led to the simultaneous publication of several artic…
Freud's China connection
Freud made several references to Chinee culture and language throughout his work, to support his ideas in a variety of ways. However, a recently discovered letter from him to a Chinese intellectual who had expressed an itnerest in his use of Chinese prompts speculation about the extent to which Freud understood the culture and the language. The traditional Chinese practice of footbinding would apper not to be explained by his theory of fetishism,…
The Archimedes spiral after‐effect as a test of arousability
The idea of the Archimedes spiral after‐effect (SAE) providing an estimate of the change of arousal that can be induced in an individual by stimulation (i.e. arousability) has been derived from personality studies of normal subjects and psychiatric patients. However, the concept of arousability has been formulated from group studies and the results from normal subjects are equivocal. An experiment was therefore conducted to test the hypothesis th…
Cognitive style, set and sorting strategy
Cognitive style was examined as a predictor of subjects' preference for response strategy, as opposed to attainment of a given response level, in a sorting task. Frame dependence, as scored by Nyborg's analysis of rod and frame test performance, and morphophilic sorting behaviour were compared in 20 normal subjects, and found to be correlated at the P
Psychology Moving East
Freud's China connection
Freud made several references to Chinee culture and language throughout his work, to support his ideas in a variety of ways. However, a recently discovered letter from him to a Chinese intellectual who had expressed an itnerest in his use of Chinese prompts speculation about the extent to which Freud understood the culture and the language. The traditional Chinese practice of footbinding would apper not to be explained by his theory of fetishism,…
Freud en Chine
Blowers Geoffrey H., Orienter Andrée, Dupont Judith. Freud en Chine : l'accueil inégal de la psychanalyse. In: Le Coq-Héron, n°139, 1995. Histoires de la psychanalyse aux quatre coins du monde. pp. 37-47
Les références chinoises de Freud
Tout au long de son oeuvre, Freud s'est maintes fois référé à la culture et à la langue chinoises pour étayer ses idées de diverses façons. Cependant, une de ses lettres, récemment découverte, adressée à un intellectuel chinois qui avait exprimé son intérêt pour les références que Freud faisait au chinois, conduit à se demander quelle compréhension avait celui-ci de la culture et de la langue chinoises ? La pratique chinoise traditionnelle du ban…
Le rejet ou la distorsion [La psychanalyse en Chine avant 1949]
Freud'sDeshi
This paper presents an account of four Japanese men, three of whom had an audience with Freud and who, with differing experiences and ambitions, returned to Japan to practice and develop psychoanalysis. Only two received any formal training, and two were strongly influenced by Buddhist thought. Freud gave no clear sign as to whom to appoint as leader, leaving the situation unsettled. This may have contributed to the continuing split and rivalry b…
Chen Li
Chen Li
Chen Li is one of a small group of psychologists in China who trained abroad early in their careers, returned to teach and do research, and continued doing so into later life beyond normal retirement age. His contacts with a number of prominent psychologists in England and Germany in the 1930s, and his inadvertent position at the center of a political row in China in the 1960s, leading to the shutting down of psychology for 10 years, made him his…
Learning from others
Recent research by Chinese and Japanese historians of psychology and education suggests that it was educational reformers' copying of Japan's education system in the first decade of the twentieth century that provided the context for modern psychology in China to develop.Psychology, although not well understood by educationalists, was thought to be useful to teacher training.In 1902 Japanese psychology teachers came to China and some textbooks we…
The prospects for a Jungian psychology in China
The possibility of a Jungian psychology developing in China is considered by a brief historical excursion through the early translations of psychoanalytical works. Translation problems and the contentious nature of some of Freud's ideas have made for their difficult reception in China. The inattention to Jung's ideas in universities in the west in the past, and a reliance on science based subjects by Chinese students studying abroad, have meant l…
To be a big shot or to be shot
The radical behaviourist Zing-Yang Kuo's other career reveals a figure who moved in the circles of senior university administrators and significant political figures.When he left China for Hong Kong after WWII, he did no more scientific research but embarked upon an autobiography and a study of Chinese national character.A chance renewal of his acquaintance with Leonard Carmichael led to the simultaneous publication of several papers based on wor…
To be a big shot or to be shot
The radical behaviorist Zing-Yang Kuo's other career reveals a figure who moved in the circles of senior university administrators and significant political figures. When he left China for Hong Kong after World War II (WWII), he did no more scientific research but embarked on an autobiography and a study of Chinese national character. A chance renewal of his acquaintance with Leonard Carmichael led to the simultaneous publication of several artic…
Ohtsuki Kenji and the Beginnings of Lay Analysis in Japan
The authors outline the major role played by Ohtsuki Kenji in the formation of the Japanese Psychoanalytic Society. Unlike the other pioneers of psychoanalysis in Japan, Ohtsuki never went abroad or met Freud. He was a literature graduate who taught himself the fundamentals of psychoanalysis. He organised the translation of Freud's complete works, formed a psychoanalytic training institute and started a journal that carried English‐language edito…
Remembering Joseph Brozek (1913-2004)
Emulation vs. indigenization in the reception of western psychology in Republican China
The present study examines the practice of empirical psychology in China during the Republican period using a content analysis of its journals. By seeking answers to questions of what kinds of psychology from the West first attracted the Chinese; whether they found a way of developing a psychology more in tune to their own cultural assumptions of selfhood; and to what uses they felt the new discipline could be put, it shows the extent to which it…
Psychology Moving East
Tributes to Jingyuan Zhang and Psychoanalysis in China
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