The Signifier Pointing at the Moon

Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-32878-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

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

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moncayo, Raul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Raul Moncayo