1st Edition

Carved by Experience Vipassana, Psychoanalysis, and the Mind Investigating Itself

By Michal Barnea-Astrog Copyright 2017
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

How does the tendency to crave pleasure and reject pain shape our lives? How does it affect the way we perceive reality, and how is it related to the emergence of suffering and the way it is experienced and transmitted? Can we live free of this tendency, beyond the pleasure principle? This book approaches these questions through an examination of the psychoanalytic concepts of projection and... Read more
Foreword , Projection and projective identification: on the impulse to expel , Vipassan? meditation as the investigation of mental action , Perceiving reality through the experience of self , Karma and the nature of boundaries between minds , One mind constituting another: the network paradigm and non-dualistic thought , Projection as mental action that induces suffering , Transference and sa?s?ra , The alternative to projection , Is there mental life free from projection? , EPILOGUE

Biography

Michal Barnea-Astrog