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A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of
Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, Crossroads in
Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness: The Word and the Breath
documents just some of the challenges, conflicts, pitfalls, and
"wow" moments that inhere in today's historical and cultural
intersections of theory, practice, and experience. As this
collection demonstrates, the crossroads between Buddhist and
psychoanalytic approaches to mindfulness are rich beyond belief in
integrative potential. The surprising and fertile connections from
which this book originates, and the future ones which every reader
in turn will spur, will invigorate and intensify this specific form
of contemporary commerce at the crossroads of East and West.
Analytically-oriented psychotherapists, themselves of different
"climates" and cultures, break out of the seclusion of the
consulting room to think, translate, meditate on, and mediate their
experiences-generated via the maternal order-in such a way as to
make those experiences thinkable via the necessary filters of the
paternal order of language. In this light the "word and the breath"
of the book's subtitle are addressed as the privileged
"instruments" of psychoanalysis and meditation, respectively.
A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of
Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, Crossroads in
Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and Mindfulness: The Word and the Breath
documents just some of the challenges, conflicts, pitfalls, and
"wow" moments that inhere in today's historical and cultural
intersections of theory, practice, and experience. As this
collection demonstrates, the crossroads between Buddhist and
psychoanalytic approaches to mindfulness are rich beyond belief in
integrative potential. The surprising and fertile connections from
which this book originates, and the future ones which every reader
in turn will spur, will invigorate and intensify this specific form
of contemporary commerce at the crossroads of East and West.
Analytically-oriented psychotherapists, themselves of different
"climates" and cultures, break out of the seclusion of the
consulting room to think, translate, meditate on, and mediate their
experiences-generated via the maternal order-in such a way as to
make those experiences thinkable via the necessary filters of the
paternal order of language. In this light the "word and the breath"
of the book's subtitle are addressed as the privileged
"instruments" of psychoanalysis and meditation, respectively.
The privileged link of psychoanalysis to spoken language does not
necessarily facilitate communication among analysts and
psychotherapists of different mother tongues. The Journal of
European Psychoanalysis published since 1995 has long sought to
overcome these linguistic barriers. Traditionally, it has
introduced English readers to important European authors, as well
as to authors of Latin American countries whose paradigms are close
to European "styles." Freed of the editorial and political
constraints that often govern the official organs of schools and
institutions, the Journal of European Psychoanalysis has, for many
years, regularly featured conversations with some of the most
prominent and brilliant figures in contemporary psychoanalysis:
highlighting debates and trends within psychoanalysis and related
fields while remaining ever-sensitive to the practical, ethical,
and theoretical implications of clinical practice. In Freud's
Tracks collects some of the most engaging and provocative of these
conversations, thus tracing a recent history of psychoanalysis in
Europe while also evidencing the discipline's vital and vibrant
connections with the fields of politics and social policy, science
and philosophy, cultural studies and the social sciences."
In his "Fragments of a Journal", playwright Eugene Ionesco wrote:
"According to Freud, the three obstacles that prevent us from being
are anxiety, pity and aversion. This is the threefold chain that
binds us. But our chain is fourfold or even fivefold: hatred or
aggressiveness are equal hindrances to freedom. Desire is the most
serious obstacle to our deliverance. Freudianism can thus, to some
extent, be reconciled with Buddhism..." Ionesco goes on to suggest
that the ultimate implications of psychoanalysis are not far
removed from those of Buddhism. In this book, Anthony Molino teases
out those implications in a collection of writings on the complex
relationship between the two disciplines. Comprised of both a
historical overview of the classic writings in the "dialogue" (with
works by Alexander, Fromm, Suzuki, Hisamatsu and Jung), and a
far-reaching panorama on the state-of-the-dialogue today (with
contributions by Adam Phillips, Mark Epstein, Masao Abe, the late
Nina Coltart, and, in conversation, psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall
and His Holiness the Dalai Lama), "The Couch and the Tree" is
intended as a watershed in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
exploration.
This book has a very simple aim: to provide, in a single
collection, an overview of the lifework and thought of five of the
most gifted, insightful and provocative thinkers in contemporary
psychoanalysis. Through their writings and their lectures each has
achieved a status of extreme distinction enjoying almost
unqualified praise from their fellow professionals. They inspire
and they educate through their originality, rigour and humanity.
Over a period of two years, Anthony Molino conducted and compiled
these interviews. The interviews concentrate on interpretations of
each analyst's work but also blossom into more broad-ranging
philosophical concerns about the nature of psychoanalysis and of
their professional lives. The book offers a rewarding, fascinating
and rare opportunity to encounter five extraordinary psychoanalysts
speaking for themselves.
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Traces Of Time (Paperback)
Lucio Mariani; Translated by Anthony Molino
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