| Description |
1 online resource (169 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Moments -- Self as poem -- Rites of passage -- Life's gate -- Spiritual integration -- To the task inwardly -- Inaction happiness -- Cultivation -- Rifts in civilization -- Lost in thought -- Group mind -- Possibilities -- Coda |
| Summary |
Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are now converging once again, notably in the practice of psychoanalysis.?? Creating a freely associated comparison between western psychoanalysts and eastern philosophers, Bollas demonstrates how the Eastern use of poetry evolved as a collective way to house the individual self. On one hand he links this tradition to the psychoanalytic praxes of Winnicott and Khan, which he relat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Buddhism and psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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Buddhism and psychoanalysis
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Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023992
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136182587 |
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1136182586 |
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