Main description:

Offers an in-depth and focused exploration of the relationship between psychoanalysis and Chinese and Japanese culture based on their ancient traditions rather than a cross-cultural approach that refers to Asian cultures in terms of contemporary generalities and cultural stereotypes.
Provides a close reading of how Lacan mobilizes concepts from Zen Buddhist philosophy, culture and practice in his later teachings.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Lacan and Vasubhandu ( ) 2. The Second Turning of the Dharma Wheel: Nagarjuna's Teachings on Nirvan 3. Rereading Freud's Nirvana 4. The Pleasure, Constancy, and Nirvana Principles 5. Wu and Mu in the Caodong Zong and Linji Schools 6. "No Buddha-Nature" and Buddha's Desire 7. The Vacuum in Western Science 8. Lacan and Wu 9. The Paradoxical Chan Koans, Self-Reference, and Letter Jouissance 10. The True Body of Bodhi and Buddh(a) 11. The Mirror in Lacan, Chan, and Dogen's Zen 12. The One, the Many, and Kuan-yin 13. Clinical Dream Example, Appendix: The Practice of Thinking non-thinking or Thinking/Meditating with the Body of (the Third) Jouissance.