China on the mind / Christopher Bollas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollas, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism and psychoanalysis.

China--Civilization.

China.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

ix, 158 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

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 relates to Daoism in their privileging of solitude and non-verbal forms of communicating. On the other, Bollas examines how Jung, Bion and Rosenfeld assimilate the Confucian ethic that sees the individual and group mind as a collective, while Freudian psychoanalysis, he argues, has provided an unconscious meeting place of both viewpoints.

Bollas's intriguing book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, Orientalists, and those concerned with cultural studies. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415669757

0415669758

9780415669764

0415669766

OCLC:

727702693