[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Psychology research

[JKirkpatrick]

Thanks--finally!

Brilliant sylist indeed-- See Stanley Edgar Hyman on Freud in
this wonderful (but sometimes hard to keep going in) book, _The
Tangled Bank: Darwin, Marx, Frazer and Freud as Imaginative
Writers_. 
I remember enjoying especially his chapter on Freud. I enjoyed it
so much that, after I donated my original copy, many years later
I bought a 2d hand copy-- to re-visit. 
My take on the alleged 'European views'-- that they have
successfully by- passed Freud et al.-- strikes me as promo for
their endless pomo debates (a.k.a 'theory'), always via
allegiance to Lacan. Pooh on him. Same for Deleuze and Guattari. 
Derrida made some interesting contributions. His biggest one to
me/us ladies-- personally-- was when he gave a lecture at Wms
College, which we all dutifully attended, to a packed house (in a
fairly small,
beautifully wood-paneled venue).  We ladies sat there as he
rambled on and on, enjoying his handsome face plus his
super-gorgeous hair, not fake. (We couldn't see any more of him
due to the shape of the podium.) The talk went on, circularly,
reminding me of a joke but I'll refrain--  until it, predictably,
wound up at the start of his lecture. 

JK 


> ____________
> You keep referring to this apparently bowdlerised Zarathustra
text. So 
> how did you see it? How do you know what's in it?
> Is the uncensored edition still available?

You can get in on Amazon.com for about $175. That's about half
the cost of my book on Dignāga, the price of which has been kept
high by my followers to prevent people from learning about my
devotion to such anti-Semites as Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky.

The shorter version of Jung's seminar on Zarathushtra is also
available. The editorial principles involved in shortening it may
have had something to do with preserving what was worth
preserving and editing out what was not especially edifying. Jung
really needed an editor. He's never as easy to follow as his more
articulate interpreters. 

My introduction to Freud was in junior high school. I read some
book for a book report. It was written by a psychiatrist who said
a better spelling of Freud would be Fraud. (Always a lover of
word play, I never forgot that line, although fifty-odd years
have erased all my other memories of that book.) Fortunately my
mother was a huge fan of Freud, so she put me on to the real
stuff. It was delightful to read. Freud, unlike Jung (and
Vasubandhu) was a brilliant stylist. 

> 
Richard
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