Raul Moncayo

The Signifier Pointing at the Moon

Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Global Book Sales
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781855754768
• ISBN-10: 1855754762
• Artikelnr.: 34786974

Autorenporträt

Raul Moncayo

Inhaltsangabe

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