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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786155603321

Autore

Bollas Christopher

Titolo

China on the mind / / Christopher Bollas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-18257-8

0-203-08301-6

1-136-18258-6

1-283-86101-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/5

Soggetti

Buddhism and psychoanalysis

China Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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