Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought

Raul Moncayo, PhD, is a supervising analyst and past founding member and former president of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA. He is the author of seven books on Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Together with Yang Yu and Hong Zhou, he founded the Beijing Center for Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Research to transmit a Lacanian psychoanalysis with an ongoing, active engagement with Chinese culture. In 2019, he founded the Blue Mountain Zen Center of El Cerrito, California. Yang Yu is Associate Professor of English Literature at Beijing Normal University, candidate analyst of the Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, and founding member of the Beijing Center for Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Research. She has published several journal papers on Lacan and English literature.

Introduction 1. Lacan and Vasubhandu ( 世亲菩萨) 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 Cáodòng Zōng and Línjì 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.