Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought: Reflections on Buddhism in Lacan's Seminar X and Beyond

By Yang Yu and Raul Moncayo

Book Overview

Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought provides a close reading of how Lacan mobilizes concepts from Chan Buddhist philosophy, culture, and practice in his later teachings.

The book emerged from the three co-authors' engagement with Lacan's 1962-1963 Seminar on Anxiety, and the significance of Lacan's original interpretation of the Buddhist principle that desire is the cause of suffering. The book reads key Lacanian concepts - such as the objet a, jouissance, the real, Nirvana, and the mirror - through ancient Buddhist teachings and koans. With this focused exploration of psychoanalysis and Chan Buddhism, the authors offer a philosophically grounded cross-cultural approach to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis in Asian countries.

Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought will be a rich resource for psychoanalysts, academics, and students interested in Lacan and religion, the intellectual and cultural relationship between Asian and Western thought, and Mahayana Buddhism more generally.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032056967
• ISBN13: 9781032056968
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"