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3. 最早由弗洛伊德在他1930年的著作《文明与缺憾》中提到:Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, trans.James Strachey (New York: W.W.Norton, 1961), 61.
4. Ian Buruma, Inventing Japan, 1853–1964 (New York: Modern Library, 2003).
5. Robert Axell, Kamikaze: Japan’s Suicide Gods (London: Longman, 2002).