{"id":564,"date":"2009-04-26T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html"},"modified":"2009-04-26T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T18:57:09","slug":"zen-and-psychoanalysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html","title":{"rendered":"Zen and Psychoanalysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine today entitled Enlightenment Therapy<\/a>\u00a0chronicling a\u00a0Zen\u00a0Master’s\u00a0\u00a0journey through psychoanalysis. It gets at an interesting dilemma- the\u00a0way the experience of non-self can be used in the service of repression and avoidance. \u00a0The author, Chip Brown writes, “He sought to protect himself against the trauma of further abandonment by pre-emptively abandoning himself. If he wasn\u2019t there in the first place, he wasn\u2019t in a position to be cast away. The Zen concept of no-self was like a powerful form of immunity.”
\nDid anyone else read this article? Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine today entitled Enlightenment Therapy\u00a0chronicling a\u00a0Zen\u00a0Master’s\u00a0\u00a0journey through psychoanalysis. It gets at an interesting dilemma- the\u00a0way the experience of non-self can be used in the service of repression and avoidance. \u00a0The author, Chip Brown writes, “He sought to protect himself against the trauma of further abandonment by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"\nZen and Psychoanalysis - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zen and Psychoanalysis - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There’s an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine today entitled Enlightenment Therapy\u00a0chronicling a\u00a0Zen\u00a0Master’s\u00a0\u00a0journey through psychoanalysis. It gets at an interesting dilemma- the\u00a0way the experience of non-self can be used in the service of repression and avoidance. \u00a0The author, Chip Brown writes, “He sought to protect himself against the trauma of further abandonment by…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-04-26T18:57:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"idpguestblog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Zen and Psychoanalysis - One City","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Zen and Psychoanalysis - One City","og_description":"There’s an interesting article in the New York Times Magazine today entitled Enlightenment Therapy\u00a0chronicling a\u00a0Zen\u00a0Master’s\u00a0\u00a0journey through psychoanalysis. It gets at an interesting dilemma- the\u00a0way the experience of non-self can be used in the service of repression and avoidance. \u00a0The author, Chip Brown writes, “He sought to protect himself against the trauma of further abandonment by…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html","og_site_name":"One City","article_published_time":"2009-04-26T18:57:09+00:00","author":"idpguestblog","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html","name":"Zen and Psychoanalysis - One City","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-04-26T18:57:09+00:00","dateModified":"2009-04-26T18:57:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/ea078f1cb50bb6e43a3c2db4d4fd4074"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/zen-and-psychoanalysis.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Zen and Psychoanalysis"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/","name":"One City","description":"The Interdependence Project","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/ea078f1cb50bb6e43a3c2db4d4fd4074","name":"idpguestblog","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"idpguestblog"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/author\/idpguestblog"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}