Coward Yoga and Psychology

Language, Memory, and Mysticism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8791-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 125 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Religious Studies

Explores the influence of yoga in the seminal Indian philosophy of Bhartrhari and in the Western psychology of Freud, Jung, and the transpersonalists, providing unique insights into the differences between Eastern and Western concepts of human nature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coward, Harold

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Yoga and Language
2. Agama in the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
3. The Yoga Psychology Underlying Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya
4. Yoga in the Vairagya-Sataka of Bhartrhari
Part II. Yoga and Western Psychology
5. Freud, Jung, and Yoga on Memory
6. Where Jung Draws the Line in His Acceptance of Patañjali's Yoga
7. Mysticism in Jung and Patañjali's Yoga
8. The Limits of Human Nature Yoga and Transpersonal Psychology 9. Conclusion
Notes
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harold Coward is with the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He is the author and editor of several books, including Jung and Eastern Thought and Derrida and Indian Philosophy, both published by SUNY Press.