Sella From Dualism to Oneness in Psychoanalysis

A Zen Perspective on the Mind-Body Question
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-26266-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Reihe: Psyche and Soul

From Dualism to Oneness in Psychoanalysis: A Zen Perspective on the Mind-Body Question focuses on the shift in psychoanalytic thought, from a view of mind-body dualism to a contemporary non-dualistic perspective. Exploring this paradigm shift, Yorai Sella examines the impact of the work of psychoanalysts and researchers such as Winnicott, Bion, Daniel Stern and Kohut and delineates the contributions of three major schools of psychoanalytic thought in which the non-dualistic view is exemplified: (1) intersubjective; (2) neuro-psychoanalytic; (3) and mystically inclined psychoanalysis.

Reaching beyond the constraints of dualism Sella delineates the interdisciplinary approaches leading to psychoanalysis's paradigm shift. Focusing on the unique contribution of Zen-Buddhism, the book draws on Ehei Dogen's philosophy to substantiate the non-duality of subject and object, body and mind - ultimately leading from alienation and duality to what Bion has termed "at one-ment". The way in which psychoanalytic theory and practice may develop further along these lines is demonstrated throughout the book in a variety of clinical vignettes.

This book will inform the practice of all psychoanalysts, mental health professionals, psychotherapists and clinicians interested in body-mind issues in psychotherapy, in the philosophy of psychoanalysis, and in East-West dialogue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sella, Yorai

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents *

Acknowledgements *

Preface *

Foreword *

Intention and aims: unitive experience and the unitary turn *

Conceptual guidelines and methodology *

Outline and structure *

The first section *

The second section *

Languages and translation *

Chapter One: A mysterious leap *

Introduction and overview *

The Body-Mind problem *

Western classical philosophical heritage and the 'mind-body' question *

Body mind dualism, the psyche-soma and psychoanalysis *

Psyche and soma *

Dualistic solutions *

Monistic solutions *

In search of a theory: the psyche-soma and body-mind relations in psychoanalysis *

Weltanschauung and the mind body question *

Methodological issues and the mind-body question *

Reframing paradigms *

Subjectivity and the psyche-soma *

Internal and external influences *

Summary and concluding remarks *

Chapter Two: Mysterious leaps: from psychosomatics to the psyche-soma *

Theory and meta-theory *

Freud's energetic proposition as an overarching meta-theory *

The rise and fall of 'psychosomatics' *

Proposed alternatives *

The psyche-soma in Object-Relations *

From 'intra-psyche-somatic' subject to 'psyche-somatic' leaps *

Dialectics of 'res cogitans' and 'res extensa' *

The mind-set of the analyst and the psyche-soma: implications of the dual 'subject-object' and 'psyche-soma' reformulations *

Psyche-somatic theory as a pivot of theoretical reformulation *

Summary and concluding remarks *

Chapter Three: The ascension of the body: representation and presentation *

The body *

Body as subject in Psychoanalysis *

A new "ordering structure" *

Phenomenology: the body in the psychoanalytic experience *

Ontology? The body, words and 'reality' *

The body as knowing-subject: present or represented? *

The psyche soma dynamic: towards a new ordering structure *

The soma's role in clinical theory and technique: the clinical body and the reflexive mind *

Summary and concluding remarks *

Chapter Four: Unitive experience and a unitary turn *

Unitive experience and unitary epistemology *

Unitive experiences *

The unitary turn: a hypothesized paradigm shift *

Intersubjective and Relational formulations *

Religious-mystical psychoanalysis *

Nuero-psychoanalytic and developmental perspectives *

Summary and concluding remarks *

Chapter Five: The unitary turn: overarching conceptual structures *

Paradox *

Complementarity *

Mysterious undercurrents *

Connectionism, systems and chaos models *

Aliveness: a "something more" nomenclature for unitive/unitary formulations *

Traversing the "leaps": preliminary outlines for unitary formulations *

The framework itself *

A motivated dialogue *

Summary and concluding remarks *

Introduction to the second section *

Overview *

Buddhism, Zen and psychoanalysis: an introduction *

Cultural underpinnings *

Contours of the psychoanalytic-Buddhist discourse: a brief history *

Chapter Six: Non-duality in Zen-Buddhism: implications on the mind-body question in contemporary psychoanalysis *

Non duality: Mahayana roots *

Conceptual versus participatory 'emptiness' *

Non-duality in Zen-Buddhism *

The negation of dualistic thinking. *

'Not thinking'? 'without thinking'? *

The nonplurality of the world: *

The non difference of subject and object *

Potentiality and the 'pre' of pre-ontology *

Potentiality and the seeds of consciousness *

Summary, dialogue and concluding remarks *

Chapter Seven: The body of the Buddhist 'body-mind' *

Early Buddhist models of the 'body-mind' *

Zen Body and non-duality in Dogen's Shobogenzo *

The Body-mind and the 'study of the way' *

Dogen's actional body-mind: 'just sitting' (Jap.: shikan taza)? *

A 'body' study of the 'way'? *

The clinical body *

The concept of 'qi' *

Summary, dialogue and concluding remarks *

Chapter Eight: Embodiment and interpretation - not two *

Discursive thinking, language and body in psychoanalysis *

Cultural underpinnings and zeitgeist *

Language and body *

Zen non-duality and an embodied language *

The phenomenology of a 'body-mind' consciousness *

Body-mind knowledge: the intuitive epistemology of Zen *

Zen Language *

Language and speech are thus exalted and berated, essential and contingent, useful but made redundant. *

Dead words, live words *

Summary and concluding remarks *

Chapter Nine: A non-dualistic body-mind-set in psychoanalysis? *

Meditative practice and contemporary psychoanalysis *

The mindset of the analyst *

In dialogue *

Evenly hovering attention reconsidered *

A Zen non-dualist perspective *

Dogen's contributions *

Attunement *

Zen-minded interpenetration-attunement *

A Zen-minded attuned presence: the practice-wisdom of empathy *

Attunement, interpersonal engagement and the "original face" *

Empathy reconsidered: from interpretation to transmutation *

Summary and concluding remarks *

Chapter Ten: From duality to oneness: Zen contributions to psyche-soma meta-theory in contemporary psychoanalysis *

Point of departure *

The basic premise *

A unitary turn *

The reformation of language and categories *

The Zen of unitive experience and unitary paradigms *

Venturing forth *

The Zen of 'body-mind' *

Potentiality and 'pre' prefixes *

Constant change and 'body-mind' systems *

The body-mind vocabulary of unitary articulation and unitive experiences *

The meditative state as a non-dualistic psyche-somatic state *

Conclusion and future directions *

References *

Über Autor(innen)

Yorai Sella, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, a psychoanalytic and Humanistic-integrative psychotherapist and a member of Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He co-directs the East-West Integrative Psychotherapy training in the School of Social Work and teaches in the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. He has practiced Tai-Chi and martial arts for the past 30 years and is a student of Zen-Buddhism