Chinese Character Psychology

Author: Yao Jinming
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book is a pioneering academic monograph that constructs a new system of psychological Chinese characters. It explores a series of new topics related to the connection, harmony, and mutual inspiration between Chinese characters and psychology, analyzing the rich psychological connotations embedded in the structure and usage of Chinese characters, and examining the deep and broad layers of Chinese character psychology and their ties to the national cultural psychology. The author arranges the psychology of Chinese characters into three historical stages: primitive, civilized, and modern, tracing the historical traces of the primitive thinking and psychological mindset, auditory and visual perceptual psychology, and the lingering historical emotions of the original soul dwelling and sensing the primordial world of "the Dao" preserved in Chinese characters. It also analyzes the logic of Chinese characters in civilized thinking, as well as the modernization of philosophy and psychology of Chinese characters within a new perspective. Furthermore, it delves into the core of Chinese cultural psychology, exploring the relationship between Chinese characters and national cultural psychology, as well as the psychological comparison between Chinese characters and phonetic scripts.