Post-Nuclear Japan: After the Bombs
The atomic bombings have changed Japan forever. By following a psychological thread through the history of Japan leading to the events of the Second World War, I demonstrate how the unconscious of the Japanese people has responded to the traumatic shock of the nuclear weapons.
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References
01:45 - A review of Japan's psychological history can be found in Jason Reza Jorjani, Prometheus and Atlas, Kill a Buddha on the Way.
04:50 - Zen and Bushido: How Japanese Philosophy Shaped the Samurai Spirit, https://japanesesword.net/blogs/news/zen-and-bushido-how-japanese-philosophy-shaped-the-samurai-spirit
08:26 - Brian Victoria, Zen at War (New York: Weatherhill, 1997), pp. 142-143 (Note: found in Jason Reza Jorjani, Prometheus and Atlas, p. 396)
08:35 - This section was drawn from the Wikipedia article on Bushido, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido#Meiji-Showa_(1868%E2%80%931945)
09:35 - Found in Jason Reza Jorjani, Prometheus and Atlas, p. 396
10:40 - The Jewel Voice Broadcast, https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/jewel-voice-broadcast/
10:55 - Hirohito's Voice - On the Air | (08.15.1945), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVhs4rD_aQ
13:10 - This section is inspired by a previous video of mine. Dream Series 08 - The discarded water makes the whole world, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liemSMz7nY&t=157s
16:05 - This section is inspired by Paul Bishop, The Dionysian Self, p. 104
18:40 - Godzilla 1954 Roars, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRYq58QPTk8
19:45 - "The annual sacrifice of a maiden to the dragon is perhaps the ideal sacrifice on a mythological level. In order to mollify the wrath of the Terrible Mother the most beautiful girl was sacrificed as a symbol of man’s concupiscence." (Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation, CW 5, par 671)
24:25 - Tanaka Tomoyuki and Ifukube Akira quotes are from Watching Godzilla in Tokyo, https://gradland.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/watching-godzilla-in-tokyo/
25:45 - Ishirō Honda quote, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=846511654147769&set=a.528571005941837&type=3&locale=en_GB
27:10 - The entire section on Astro Boy is drawn from Gibson, A. (2013). Out of Death, an Atomic Consecration to Life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima’s Long Shadow.
29:00 - Astro Boy: Dr. Tenma no longer wants robot Toby, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMzRTTZ5IZ8
33:40 - Robert Moore, Journey to the Center, part 3: Centering the Self, 39:42.
See also my article "Regulating Grandiosity: The Works of Robert L. Moore", https://dreamsanctuary.net/moore/
