Takeo Doi

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Takeo Doi (土居健郎, born in 1920 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese psychoanalyst. Takeo Doi made his influential critique of contemporary Japanese society in the work The Anatomy of Dependence, which focused extensively on the cause and effects of the Japanese cultural behavior, amae.

In 1986 Takeo Doi published a further book The Anatomy of Self, that expands on his previous analysis of the concept of amae by a deeper examination of the distinctions between [[honne and tatemae] (inner feelings and public display); uchi (home) and soto (outside); and omote (front) and ura (rear) and suggests that these constructs are important for understanding the Japanese psyche as well as Japanese society.

Doi is a graduate of the University of Tokyo.

For a lengthy critique of his work, which dismisses Doi's theory as merely another variety of nihonjinron see Dale, Peter N. 1986. The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness Oxford, London. Nissan Institute, Croom Helm.pp.116-175

[edit] Selected Works

• The Psychological World of Natsume Soseki, Harvard University Press, 1976, ISBN 978-0-674-72116-6
• The Anatomy of Self, 1986.

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