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Books by Tatsuhiro Nakajima

American Federation of Astrologers, 2023

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The discovery of Eris in 2005 caused upheaval to reorder our solar system. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as dwarf planet, together with newly found Eris as well as Ceres, Haumea, and Makemake. Possibly, Sedna and Quaoar are also dwarfs. In this book, the astrological meaning of the dwarf planets is analyzed through exploration of the underworld mythology and the creation mythology as well as astrological chart readings of the dwarf planets in relevant individuals and institutions. Dane Rudhyar’s concept of the galactic dimension of the consciousness reorients the person’s ego toward the spiritual self of the collective psyche and conveys messages from transindividual realms. What does that mean in terms of the astrology of the dwarf planets?

From Chapter 1 to Chapter 3, the astromythology of Pluto in association with Dionysus and Demeter examines the significance of its reclassification. From Chapter 4 to 8, we focus on the astromythology of Eris in terms of the psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein and the philosophy of Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze to analyze the astrological meaning of Eris. Chapter 8 traces the transit of Eris in each sign along with the fixed stars through analysis of meaningful historical events. Chapter 9 analyzes the creation mythology of Haumea, Makemake, Quaoar and Sedna, within a wider structure of the Polynesian and Native American mythology. The astrological interpretation follows in Chapter 10.

This is a book of psychoanalysis. However, the patient is not a human, but place and imagination ... more This is a book of psychoanalysis. However, the patient is not a human, but place and imagination of placing. The islands of Okinawa, placed on the border of Japan and Taiwan, consist of a complex of subtropical islands in the East China Sea with marine life abundantly found in the beautiful emerald ocean. However, Okinawa is a history of deterritorialization starting from colonization of the former Ryukyu kingdom by Japan in 1879, followed by the World War II and the US occupation until 1972. Throughout the course of world history, inventions of new machines and technologies, alteration of perception of space and subsequent deterritorialization, and new kinds of war took place coincidentally at the same time. These tiny dots on the Pacific Ocean became subject to the collective fate of the world. However, placing oneself in these tiny dots and looking at the world from within provides a picture that is totally different from looking at them externally. There are numerous accounts by ethnographers and anthropologists who carried out research in this region of carnivals masks and costumes, their belief in the oceanic paradise, worship of nature, ancestors and women’s spirituality. Psychoanalysis of the anthropological research unfolds complexity of this field and deconstructs dualistic modern mind that separates nature from psyche. What appears from the psychoanalysis of anthropology is an ecological perspective of the psyche of the new era.

Papers by Tatsuhiro Nakajima

The resemblance between Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism and Carl Jung’s theory of the archet... more The resemblance between Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism and
Carl Jung’s theory of the archetypes of the collective unconscious
has been occasionally discussed. However, Lévi-Strauss followed
the foundation of Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, stressing the
group dynamics of structural anthropology, whereas Jung’s
psychology is an individual psychology. Jung employed myths as
a series of images to interpret symbols of the collective
unconscious, whereas Lévi-Strauss adopted theories of linguistics
to analyse myths as narratives. From Lévi-Strauss’s point of view, a
single cultural complex cannot be isolated from other groups of
cultural complexes, as they are relational with regard to the
exchange of symbols and signs. Lévi-Strauss’s comparison of the
European and Native American twin mythology is a case study of
the cultural complex when it is read from the perspective of
Jungian psychology. How can we approach the mythology that is
not one’s own culture? Do we impose our own mythology onto
others’? Or do we analyse them more objectively as systems of
thought? The trickster, for example, is a discourse by Western
culture about Western culture, and it has a very different meaning
for Native American people. With a prophetic warning to future
generations, Lévi-Strauss died in 2009 – his centennial year.

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Is theoretical construction of Carl Jung's psychology an extension of Aristotle's natural philoso... more Is theoretical construction of Carl Jung's psychology an extension of Aristotle's natural philosophy and Hermeticism? Aristotle's natural philosophy was transferred to the 12th century Europe, via Arabic and Persian astrology, with Hermeticism and Neoplatonism. Transmission of Corpus Hermeticum to Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival was an example. It is possible to identify the psychology of Aristotle in these texts. Aristotle's natural philosophy was displaced by the philosophy of mind after Descartes, and Jung analyzed this paradigm shift as the depsychologization of projected psychology. With his archetypal theory, Jung compensated for what was missing in modern psychology due to a radical break between the Cartesian mind and the Aristotelian soul. By applying the methodology of the continuity thesis of the history of science, Jung's psychology is elucidated as a renewal of natural philosophy through transformation. Jung transformed Aristotle's epistemological distinction between reason (logos) and intellect (nous) into the differentiation of the ego and the self.

When reading the mythology of Persephone, Demeter, and Artemis from the perspective of ecopsycho... more When reading the mythology of Persephone, Demeter, and Artemis from the
perspective of ecopsychology, the meanings of natural disasters like the 2011 Japan
Earthquake, followed by the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster, are revealed in
depth. The mythology of Persephone and Demeter provides an idea of the object
relation between an individual life (bios) and life in general (zoë). Harold F. Searles
analyzed the relation between environmental crisis and technology. The problem of
externalization of developmental anxiety of the paranoid-schizoid position has been
pointed out by Carl Jung, Wolfgang Giegerich, and Brigitte Egger in terms of
unconscious acting out of mythology. In the history of science, epistemology of the
notion of nature has been centered around the aphorism of Heraclitus: ‘Nature loves to
hide’. As Jung presented an idea of psychoid unconscious, we need to find the secret
of nature within the mystery of being.

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Some major earthquakes coincide with the transit of Uranus over the angle of the national horosco... more Some major earthquakes coincide with the transit of Uranus over the angle of the national horoscopes. The angle is a bone structure of a horoscope, so it is not hard to imagine how vulnerable and shaky the angle can be when it is hit by Uranus. Nicholas Campion together with Michael Baigent and Charles Harvey write, “As in natal astrology the angles, the MC and AS, of a national or group chart are always particularly sensitive to transits” (Mundane Astrology 226).
The angle is a coordinate composed of Ascendant (ASC)/Descendant (DES) axis and Medium Coeli (MC)/Imum Coeli (IC) axis. In mundane astrology, the ASC signifies the appearance of the nation as a whole, its image, myth and national characteristics; it is the face. The IC is the ground on which the nation builds up; the land, homes and its deep rooted traditions. The DES signifies the diplomacy of the nation in relation to other societies and countries; it is the face of the nation facing to the other’s. The MC is the head of the nation standing on the enduring foundation of the IC. It signifies the government, capital and the social structure. The angle signifies not only the society, culture and politics in general but also physical and ecological bodies of the nations.
On the other hand, the transit of Uranus in mundane astrology signifies a radical shift in society and culture as an historical event due to scientific discoveries and technological inventions or revolutionary change in the collective mind for innovation and liberation. The change is irresistible. The more the nation denies the change, the more upheaval is the result. Earthquake, war lead by tyranny, disastrous accidents and chaotic happenings are examples of negative manifestations of the extremity of Uranus.
Earthquake is an archetypal manifestation of the Uranus transit. Uranus trembles the body of the nation represented by the angle as if it awakes the nation’s collective psyche. Many cases of the earthquakes are not simple natural disasters. The change is happening not only in the seismic diastrophism but also in complexity of social, political, cultural and ecological levels of the collective unconscious. The phenomenon of the earthquake is an ecopsychological manifestation of the collective unconscious of totally new ideas and concepts urging radical change of the old systems. Earthquakes, tsunami, hurricane, whatever the natural disasters might be, we should not separate ecology from psychology and sociology. Following six case studies of the earthquakes demonstrate the Uranus transit over the angle taking place at the time of the crucial social change.

In 30 years time, Uranus transit will hit the angle of San Francisco’s incorporation chart twice,... more In 30 years time, Uranus transit will hit the angle of San Francisco’s incorporation chart twice, Los Angeles’s incorporation chart twice, and the foundation chart once. From 2012 to 2019, Uranus will transit over the IC of Los Angeles’s incorporation chart and then the DES of the foundation chart within an 8° orb. The pattern is similar to the Long Beach earthquake of 1933. The most intense period will be from 2013 to 2015, during which the transit Uranus over the IC of Los Angeles will make a square with the transit Pluto within a tight 2° orb. However, Uranus is unpredictable. It is uncertain if it will hit this particular angle of this particular chart for the earthquake. It may choose other charts or other points for another social change.
Whether the earth trembles or not, what Uranus demands is an openness to be fully awake to the change of the world. In Greek mythology, the sky God Uranus and the earth Goddess Gaia procreated, resulting in six male Titans, the six female Titanides, the three Cyclopes, and the three Hecatoncheires. An earthquake is a Giant, an archetypal phenomenon, an awesome offspring of the hierosgamos of the Great Mother Gaia and her Son Uranus, which awfully creates a new world by returning the nations and cities in historical time instantly to the primordial mythic time, in illo tempore, of their foundation where there was nothing but a plan of the universe written in the vast blue sky.

I call the complexity of the cultural complexes of the Ryukyus "the Ryukyu complex." Applying Tho... more I call the complexity of the cultural complexes of the Ryukyus "the Ryukyu complex." Applying Thomas Singer and Samuel L. Kimble's concept of the cultural complex and Michael Vannoy Adams' multicultural imagination of the mythological unconscious to the topoanalysis of the Ryukyu complex, ecopsychology discloses place and placing of the Ryukyu complex in (1) the notion of nirai, the "paradise afar in the ocean," (2) the visiting deities of carnivals, (3) absolute immanence of the resident deity, (4) illness narratives of noro, the "priestess" and yuta, the "shamaness," and (5) the archetypal defense of the cultural complex traumatized by the war.

Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) was a unique figure in twentieth-century American culture: a composer, p... more Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) was a unique figure in twentieth-century American culture: a composer, painter, poet, astrologer, and new age philosopher. His life and works characterize crucial twentieth-century American themes about migrants’ society, history of deterritorialization, univocal identity of multitude of culture, race, religion and language. In this paper, I examine auto/biographical research on Rudhyar’s life as an artist as well as his distinction between transpersonal and humanistic astrology. His definition of transpersonal process of transformation is also explored.

Gaston Bachelard identifies complexes by cultural signs, and introduces the notion of “culture co... more Gaston Bachelard identifies complexes by cultural signs, and introduces the notion of “culture complexes.” Inspired by Bachelard’s Lautréamont complex, James Hillman propounds “psychoanalysis without a patient.” Between text and writer, or text and patient, lies the complex, a likeness of structure that connects. If we call anything in Bachelardian analyses the patient, it is Imagination. Imagination is the place to be disclosed by topoanalysis (in Bachelard’s term). The psychic exists—it arises and vanishes—in place. Bachelard, inspired by Lautréamont, articulates the animalizing imagination: “A need to animalize [. . .] is at the origins of imagination. The first function of imagination is to create animal forms.” Among many animals, mythic animals witness the immediacy of the autopoiesis of the imagination. The mythic meaning of the phoenix is death/(re)birth, the sphinx is animal/human, and the dragon is chaos/cosmos—chaosmosis. The self-display of these animals is a transformational libido of binary opposition.

Conference Presentations by Tatsuhiro Nakajima

A resemblance of the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Carl Jung's theory of the archetype... more A resemblance of the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Carl Jung's theory of the archetypes of the collective unconscious has been discussed occasionally; however, Lévi-Strauss, following in the footsteps of the foundation of Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, stressed the group dynamics of structural anthropology; whereas Jung's psychology is an individual psychology. How is it possible for an individual psychologist to be a psychologist of the collective unconscious? Is the psychology of the collective not a group psychology? Even if it is possible to extend the individual psychology to the larger whole of the collective, is it not a grandiose fantasy of an individual relating to the larger whole without an objective observation of group dynamics? A single cultural complex cannot be isolated from other groups of cultural complexes as they are libidinal flow of economy and exchange of symbols and signs. That complexity is a compound, composition of the collective unconscious. Cultural complex/unconscious is meaningless unless it is analyzed as a web of economy and exchanges of signs and symbols among bundles of other cultures. Jung's interpretation of culture and mythology is a psychological operation of creation of meanings, and it works within social settings and contexts of Jungian psychology and psychotherapy as Gordon Lawrence's concept of social dreaming suggests. The question is not " what is mythology? " but " how can we approach the mythology of not one's own? " Do we impose one's own mythology on others'? Or do we analyze others more objectively as systems of thought, as social dreaming?

The deity of hearth fire is worshiped in many cultures. In Okinawa, Japan, it is a guardian of th... more The deity of hearth fire is worshiped in many cultures. In Okinawa, Japan, it is a guardian of the household. From December 24 to January 4, over the Chinese New Year, the deity called finukan ascends to heaven to report on household incidents that occurred over the past year, and then descends from heaven with rewards. This ritual can be interpreted as a transitional phenomenon for the transformation of the psychic energy. Compared to the ancient hearth, symbols of transformation are lacking in modern kitchens. Now, even in non-western societies, the pre-modern world of animism and shamanism is rapidly disappearing. But as Jung pointed out long ago, these gods and goddesses are not dead, only forgotten and changed to symptoms and disease like catastrophic climate changes, natural disasters, energy crisis, new viruses, and nuclear risks. The etymology of economy in Greek is oikos and nomos, meaning “household account.” To improve our economy and ecology, we need to retrieve the soul of the kitchen.

Mythic reality is a process of self-organization emerging from the field where three ecologies of... more Mythic reality is a process of self-organization emerging from the field where three ecologies of socius, psyche and environment meet. In the late modern world, participation in the mythic reality shifts from the representational belief in mysteries to more conceptual fabrication of social reality such as complexity theory, field theory, and the concept of projective identification in psychoanalysis. Social construction of reality takes place in this marginal interdisciplinary field of psychology, ecology and sociology.

American Federation of Astrologers, 2023

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