Within the context of a careful review of the psychology of religion and prior non-Lacanian literature on the subject, Raul Moncayo builds a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism that steers clear of reducing one to the other or creating a simplistic synthesis between the two. Instead, by making a purposeful "One-mistake" of "u
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Although the foreground focus of this book is the relationship between Zen Buddhism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, its content matter will be examined and elucidated against the background of the relationship between modernity and postmodernity and within the larger context of the psychology of religion.
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Introduction -- The cultural context: contemporary psychoanalysis and postmodern spirituality -- Psychoanalysis as a secular and non-theistic study of the mind -- Meditation as thinking and non-thinking in Lacan and Zen -- True subject is no-ego -- Turning words and images of the unseen: symbolic uses of the Imaginary and the Real in Lacan, Zen, and Jewish Kabbalah -- The Tetragramaton, the Borromean knot, the four worlds, and the Tetralemma -- Mindfulness of breathing and psychoanalysis -- Consciousness, awareness, the unconscious, and the three dimensions of experience -- Zen practice and the practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis
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ISBN
9780367328788
Publisert
2019-07-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
660 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
272

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Moncayo, Raul