Abstract The concept of resignation carries widely divergent meanings in the cultural contexts of Western and Eastern experiences. Whereas the Western perspective of resignation implies a negative, impoverished state of self-assertion, the Eastern perspective contains wider and more complex meanings, among which is that resignation is a virtue to be cultivated. Using the writings of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature Yasunari Kawabata, akirame, the Eastern, specifically Japanese, concept of resignation, will be examined for its multilayered psychological and cultural meanings. In addition, from Kawabata’s writing and biographical information, I demonstrate how the Western psychoanalytic concept of Oedipal conflict relates to and manifests in the Eastern psychology of resignation, bridging both Eastern and Western cultures to elucidate underlying, universal human conflicts.

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日本人的听天由命、明目和川端的著作

摘要 在西方和东方经验的文化背景下，辞职的概念具有广泛的不同含义。西方的顺从意味着一种消极的、贫困的自我主张状态，而东方的顺从则包含着更广泛、更复杂的含义，其中，顺从是一种需要培养的美德。将使用诺贝尔文学奖获得者川端康成的著作，探讨东方人，特别是日本人的辞职概念，了解其多层次的心理和文化意义。此外，从川端康熙的著作和传记信息中，我展示了西方的俄狄浦斯冲突的精神分析概念如何与东方的顺从心理相关联并在其中表现出来，架起了东西方文化的桥梁，以阐明潜在的、