NATIONAL CHARACTER IN THE VIEW OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Tóm tắt

In the current context of globalization, when humanity is gradually moving towards a flat world, besides that common trend, each nation - state still retains its own national characteristics. Those are the typical and unique features that each community contributes to the cultural heritage of humanity. In that sense, the character of each nation - expressing its identities, personalities, and identities - has always had a strange attraction for researchers. However, national character is a rather vague concept, difficult to grasp, both relative and universal, so it is also an open concept, open to different approaches of psychology, sociology, ethnology, anthropology, value studies, cultural studies.... National character is seen as an iceberg, in which the part that emerges that we consciously perceive only accounts for a small part, while most of the other parts remain unconscious. Therefore, the approach to studying the national character from a psychoanalytic perspective can be considered quite unique and advantageous and cannot be taken lightly.

This article can be considered as an attempt to study the national character expressing the unique identity of a nation-state under the new perspective of psychoanalysis, from which it is possible to make comments on the national character of some nation, including Viet Nam