Psychological Analysis Of The Chinese Food Culture

"Eating" is extremely significant for the living and development of human beings and plays special role in Chinese culture. There are important theoretical significances for Chinese Cultural Psychology and Analytical Psychology as well as clinical and practical meanings for physical and mental health and analytical psychotherapy to go on psychoanalysis researches of Chinese Eating Culture.In this thesis, the integrated methods were adopted to explore the psychological connotation of Chinese Eating Culture, such as archetypes, collective unconscious, cultural imagination and psychological dynamics, etc, which not only focused on the ideas of analytical psychology but also referred to the methods and methodological ideas of hermeneutic, phenomenology, complexity theory, archaeology, history and Traditional Chinese Medicine. The research included five sections:Archetypal images and psychoanalysis of "the Nature of Eating": the archetypal meaning of "the Nature of Eating" contained the evolvement of human nature and heart nature and their relation with the nature during the process of Eating, as well as the exhortation and idea of "Coexistence and mutual compliment between human and nature"; in the cultural unconscious accumulation of "the Nature of Eating", the meaning of collective unconscious was reflected in Chinese culture as well as the significance and influence of ecology unconscious.The archetype of heart nature in the idea of " Eating and sex are human nature" and psychological dynamic analysis: comparing with the psychological dynamics of the depth psychology that focused on the sexual drive, Eating was paid more attention to be the basic psychological drive of human and had the necessary influences to the...