The Signifier Pointing at the Moon : Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism.
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. Inst...
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Karnac Books,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE The cultural context: contemporary psychoanalysis and postmodern spirituality; CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalysis as a secular and non-theistic study of the mind; CHAPTER THREE Meditation as thinking and non-thinking in Lacan and Zen; CHAPTER FOUR True subject is no-ego; CHAPTER FIVE Turning words and images of the unseen: symbolic uses of the Imaginary and the Real in Lacan, Zen, and Jewish Kabbalah; CHAPTER SIX The Tetragramaton, the Borromean knot, the four worlds, and the Tetralemma.
- CHAPTER SEVEN Mindfulness of breathing and psychoanalysisCHAPTER EIGHT Consciousness, awareness, the unconscious, and the three dimensions of experience; CHAPTER NINE Zen practice and the practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis; REFERENCES; INDEX.
