Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis [Paperback]

Erich Fromm (Author), D. T. Suzuki (Author), Richard De Martino (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Harpers (August 25, 1970)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0046160299
• ISBN-13: 978-0046160296
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,028,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very fine book., October 19, 1998

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This review is from: Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (Paperback)

This book explains how the Subject Object dichotomy existing within us is fictitious; a creaation of our mind. It demonstrates how psychoanalysis can never understand a person, because analysis implies cutting into pieces and from those pieces trying to infer what the whole could be; in other words killing the person to learn or understand him in his live form. It shows how the present method of analysis adopted by science is incapable of understanding in its totality something which is alive and functioning

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5.0 out of 5 stars Psychoanalysis and Zen: Introspection through diff.ways, September 17, 1999

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This review is from: Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (Paperback)

You may find out reading this book, that, what took a Freud's life to understand slightly, was already there in Buddism teachings. The Four steps towards Mental health has amazingly similarities with Budha's Four Noble Truths. This book started my interest in Zen Buddhism.