Mass Emotional Deformation as Re-Adaptation of Psychomental Complex: On the Example of the Nation Building in East Asia during Post-WWII Period

Authors

  • Oleg S. PAKHOMOV Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24866/2542-1611/2023-1/42-54

Keywords:

Shirokogoroff, ethnos, psychomental complex, mass psychosis, affective complex, East Asia

Abstract

This paper aims to develop S.M. Shirokogoroff's idea of mass psychosis with the help of theory of affective complex (L.S. Vygotsky, A.R. Luria). From this perspective, complex of mass emotional deformation is a special culturalpsychological externally mediated mechanism for maintaining the dynamic equilibrium of an ethnos in response to impulses of environment. In particular, the article, using East Asia as an example, examines how different countries of the region entered into state of mass affect with its consequent translation (inhibition) into the institutions of nationstates.

Author Biography

  • Oleg S. PAKHOMOV, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan)

    PhD, Assistant Professor

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Published

31-03-2023

Issue

No. 1 (2023): Oriental Institute Journal

Section

MONOGRAPH BY S.M. SHIROKOGOROFF "ETHNOS" AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR MODERN SCIENCE

How to Cite

“Mass Emotional Deformation as Re-Adaptation of Psychomental Complex: On the Example of the Nation Building in East Asia during Post-WWII Period” (2023) Oriental Institute Journal, (1), pp. 42–54. doi:10.24866/2542-1611/2023-1/42-54.