The Zen impulse and the psychoanalytic encounter
By: Paul C. Cooper.
Publisher: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415997645; 9780415997652; 9780203883464
Subjects: Buddhism and psychoanalysis; Zen Buddhism -- Psychology; Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects -- Zen Buddhism; Meditation -- Zen Buddhism -- Therapeutic use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Riding the elusive ox of Zen: problems of definition; title: First encounters of a distant kind; title: The Zen koan: speaking the unspeakable; title: "Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?" Nihilism, absolutism, and "Joshu's mu"; title: Sand in rice: one koan, infinite possibilities; title: Unconscious and conscious in Zen and psychoanalysis; title: The crazy cloud of attention and inattention: meditation review; title: Sense and non-sense; title: The gap between: being, knowing and the liminal in-between; title: Unitive experience and the pervasive object.