What is it about?
The aim of this research is to transmit and comment on the authentic voices of socially withdrawn subjects and to contribute toward refining subjective inquiry in contemporary Japan. Here, I detail the cases of four individuals visiting Japanese Non Profit Organizations between August 2011 and August 2012. In accordance with my findings, I define socially withdrawn individuals as post-modern social renouncers.
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Why is it important?
Hikikomori should not be reduced to a mental disorder but should be seen as an idiom of distress and a modality where one can recognize him/herself as a subject, or a mode of enjoyment. I suggest ways of improving qualitative methodology and directions for future research at the intersection of cultural history, anthropology, and subjectivity theory.
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I have written articles about social withdrawal in Japan. 1. School non-attendance and counselling in Japan 2. Review of Hikikomori 3. Narratives of Hikikomori 4. 2016 Hikikomori survey 5. Hikikomori trauma
Dr Nicolas Tajan
National Institute of Mental Health – National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
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This page is a summary of: Japanese post-modern social renouncers: An exploratory study of the narratives of Hikikomori subjects, Subjectivity, August 2015, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/sub.2015.11.
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