168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction. Part I: Moments. Self as Poem. Rites of Passage. Part II: Life’s Gate. Spiritual Integration.To the Task Inwardly. Inaction Happiness. Part III: Cultivation. Rifts in Civilization. Lost in Thought. Group Mind. Possibilities. Coda.

Biography

Christopher Bollas is a psychoanalyst and novelist.

"It is amazing to read such a deep understanding of Chinese thinking from a Western psychoanalyst. He provides us with evidence of the remarkable ways psychoanalsyts think: Showing us things we had not seen before, exploring things in ways one would never have dared imagine, providing us with a new experience, with new discoveries, and the pleasure of this way of learning." - Prof. Dr. Yunping Yang, Psychoanalytic psychotherapist & Psychiatrist, Beijing Anding Hospital, Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

"It is astonishing not only how much the author knows about the Chinese mind but how he really shows a new perspective on the differences between China's mind and the Western mind!" - Li Yawen, Psychiatrist, Beijing Anding Hospital, China