China on the Mind

Name: China on the Mind
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ISBN: 9780415669764

ISBN-10: 0415669766

ISBN-13: 9780415669764

Edition: 2013

Authors: Christopher Bollas

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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 relates to Daoism in their privileging of solitude and non verbal forms of communicating. On the other, Bollas examines how Jung,…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Preconceptions



Moments



Self as Poem



Rites of Passage



Realizations



Life's Gate



Spiritual Integration



To the Task Inwardly



Inaction Happiness



Conceptualizations



Cultivation



Rifts in Civilization



Lost in Thought



Group Mind



Possibilities



Coda


Notes


Bibliography


Index