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Osaka Human Sciences. 2025, 11, p. 45-77

Toward an Art of Poetics and Micropolitics for Reconciliation Studies [Series of Philosophical Psychology of Reconciliation, Part II]

Nojiri, Eiichi

Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

English

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2025-03

This paper is the second (Part II) of a series comprising two parts. In this series, the author aims to examine how to address the challenges associated with memory and historical cognition through the lens of philosophical anthropology or philosophical psychology. Furthermore, I will evaluate whether such research can contribute to the vision of a new academic field, “reconciliation studies.” Emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities and social sciences. This will involve reinterpretation of Western classical philosophical theories of memory, introduction of recent findings in psychopathology, and decoding problematic constructs on memory present in contemporary representational culture such as literature, film, manga, and anime. This series is part of a broader attempt to create a new academic field called “reconciliation studies” that seeks to reconnect relationships among the peoples of countries divided by the imperialist wars of the twentieth century, building toward future coexistence2). In the first part (Part I), titled “On the ‘I’ as a Vessel of Memories or the ‘I’ as Ideational Representative (Vorstellungsrepräsentanz): A treatise of memory, autism, and nation” (Nojiri 2024a, published in Osaka Human Sciences, Vol. 10), drawing on the theory of sign, memory, and imagination in G. W. F. Hegel and Jacques Derrida, recent research on autism spectrum disorder, Ian Hacking’s essay on the history of science with regard to identity and memory, and Maurice Halbwachs’ theory of collective memory, I argued that our mind fulfills the function of forming our identity while facilitating resonance between memory and empathy. I then discussed the formation of a pseudo national memory space in the social space of postwar Japan. In this second part, I continue my discussion from the “historical subject debate” of the 1990s, which occurred when the people’s memory space interfered with globalization. Then, via the theories of Louis Althusser, Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Žižek and others on representation and structure, I discusses the figure of Antigone in Lacan in the light of the issue of nationalism, and applies the ethics of psychoanalysis: “to traverse the fantasy,” and taking inspiration from Bakhtin’s dialogism and the modern psychotherapeutic technique of “Open Dialogue,” I approaches the issue of reconciliation in East Asia. In the development of the argument, cultural materials will be discussed, including “Demon Slayer,” “Star wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” “Pacific Rim,” “Drive My Car,” and even the popularity of transnational BL (boys’ love) works in Asia. Through this philosophical adventure, this paper seeks to open up theoretical possibilities for techniques that promote reconciliation between peoples and move towards the future in the era of globalization.

10.18910/100848

100848

Toward an Art of Poetics and Micropolitics for Reconciliation Studies [Series of Philosophical Psychology of Reconciliation, Part II]

Nojiri, Eiichi

Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

English

2025-03

Osaka Human Sciences

11

45

77

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/100848

10.18910/100848

https://doi.org/10.18910/100848