Zen Buddhism And Psychoanalysis
D . T. SUZUKI
ERICH FROMM
RICHARD DE MARTINO
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FOREWORD
This book has its origin in a workshop on Zen Buddhishm and Psychoanalysis, which was held under the auspices of the Department of Psychoanalysis of the Medical School, autonomous national University of Mexico, during the first week of August, 1957, in Cueranavaca, Mexico.
Any psychologist, even twenty years ago, would have been greatly surprised-or shocked-to find his colleagues interested in a “mystical” religious system such as Zen Buddhishm. He would have been ever more surprised to find that most of the people present were not just “interested” but deeply concerned, and that they discovered that the week spent with Dr. Suzuki and his ideas had a most stimulating and refreshing influence on them, to say the least.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Erich Fromm
LECTURES ON ZEN BUDDHIHSM
D.T. Suzuki
I. east and West
II. The Unconscious in Zen Buddhism
III. The Concept of the self in Zen Buddhism
IV. The Koan
V. The Five steps
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ZEN BUDDHISM
Erich Fromm
I. Today’s spiritual crisis and the role of Psychoanalysis
II. Values and goals in Freud’s psychoanalytic concept
III. The nature of well-being – man’s psychic evolution
IV. The nature of consciousness, repression and de-pression
V. Principles of Zen Buddhism
VI. De-repression and enlightenment
THE HUMAN SITUATION AND ZEN BUDDHISM
Richard De Martino
Index