Takeo Doi

Takeo Doi (Japanese土 居 健 郎, Doi Takeo; * March 17, 1920; † 5 July 2009) was a Japanese psychoanalyst.

Life

Takeo Doi studied medicine in Tokyo and worked for several years in the USA as a psychiatrist. Later he managed various departments of the medical faculty of the University of Tokyo until he retired in 1980. He died in 2009 at the age of 89 years.

He was in the West primarily known for his influential analyzes and interpretations of specific Japanese psychological phenomenon of Amae ( " analogy " ) in his work Amae no Kozo (about: The structure of the analogy ).

1986 Doi published his work The construction of the self, in which he based on the concept Amae the distinctions between honne and tatemae ( inner feeling and outer facade); uchi ( home ) and soto ( outside ) and omote (front) and ura (rear ) analyzed and represented as important for understanding the Japanese psyche and the Japanese society.

Works

• Takeo Doi: Amae - freedom in security. On the structure of Japanese psyche. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-518-11128-0
• Takeo Doi: Amae: A key concept for understanding Japanese personality structure, in: Ulrich Menzel ( ed.), In the Shadow of the winner: Japan, Vol 1: Culture and Society, Frankfurt / M. 1989, pp. 98-110