The Indiciplinary Collective Memory Studies focused on the Identity Building in Modern and Contemporary World

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22242004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: IWASAKI Minoru 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (10201948)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HACHIOSHI Makoto 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (20172926) ; IMAI Akio 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (20203284) ; KANAI Kotaro 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (40143523) ; SHINOHARA Taku 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (20251564) ; YONETACHI Takasi 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (80251312) ; KUDO Koichi 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 教授 (80255950) ; ODAWARA Rin 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 講師 (70466910) ; TSUCHIDA Tamaki 日本映画大学, 映画学部, 准教授 (70573658)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 想起 / 集合的記憶 / 東アジア / 脱中心化的想起 / 自己確証的想起 / 歴史 / 思想史 / 哲学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have analyzed the problematics of national memories in East Asia through the methodological dichotomy of “Recollection” and “Anamnesis”, extended the field to South-East Asia and Europe, with the conscious analytical tools as gender theories and critical histories, and reconsidered various cultural representations and discourses from the perspective of collective memory and its dynamics. As a result it is concluded that the “Anamnesis” could not only make the phenomena of national identities suspended, but also deconstruct them effectively, while the “Recollection” could function, when warped or isolated, as a grotesque narcissism and autointoxication. Then we would have an adequate understanding on the collective memory, it would be possible to overcome the warped relationship of “Anamnesis” and “Recollection.”

Free Research Field

哲学、思想史、記憶論