Ghibli Lessons: Listening to the Echoes and Variations of the Unspeakable

This is a record of a class in which students unearthed the multilayered "voices" trapped in "modernity" that can be heard in Ghibli films. For 12 years, high school students and teachers have engaged in proactive discussions, transcending the boundaries between "student" and "teacher." Ghibli films contain a variety of forgotten memories. This Ghibli theory was born from passionate discussions between teachers and students in class, as they listened to the "voices" heard in the films. ◇ Included works: "Princess Mononoke," "Spirited Away," "Howl's Moving Castle," "Ponyo," "The Wind Rises," and "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind." ◇ A collection of keywords that emerged in class is included at the end of each chapter. [Some keywords] Metaphor and allegory: memories of leprosy patients / The statelessness and transnationality of the mysterious town / Labor and identity / Kotodama philosophy and animism / Arakawa Shusaku's "The Land of Reversible Destiny Yoro" and bodily sensations / The acquisition of otherness / Blood and purification / Center and periphery / Suppressed "fire" and "fire" used in war / Narcissism and ressentiment / The human-faced fish that summons a tsunami as a rare visitor / Life and death / Reincarnation and the circular world / Nirai Kanai / Male logic and female logic / The form of the mother / Resolving latent complexes / The meaning of wind, and more...