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Raul Moncayo explores the relationship between Zen and Lacanian psychoanalysis |
The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism I wrote this book to help clarify some misconceptions about Zen and psychoanalysis and
Read more →David Rosenfeld explores the origins of symbols and the logic of thought through the study of autism |
The Creation of the Self and Language I consider that the treatment of an autistic child is an opportunity to observe and investigate the origins of verba
Read more →Annie Reiner explores Bion’s concept of “O” |
Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind The central focus of my new book, Bion And Being: Passion and the Creative Mind, is Wilfred Bion’s concept o
Read more →John Michael Greer explains why symptoms of approaching social change are often pathologized |
The human psyche is not simply a cultural construct. Neither is the universe in which the individual and society alike are embedded. Both have their own re
Read more →Hendrika C. Freud on Marcel Proust, Masochism, and Matricide |
The subject of the mother-son relationship had never been broached with such psychological insight as in Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past (1921).
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