Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought

<p><em>Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought</em> provides a close reading of how Lacan mobilizes concepts from Chan Buddhist philosophy culture and practice in his later teachings. </p><p>The book emerged from the three co-authors’ engagement with Lacan’s 1962–1963 Seminar on Anxiety and the significance of Lacan’s original interpretation of the Buddhist principle that desire is the cause of suffering. The book reads key Lacanian concepts – such as the <i>objet a</i> jouissance the real Nirvana and the mirror – through ancient Buddhist teachings and koans. With this focused exploration of psychoanalysis and Chan Buddhism the authors offer a philosophically grounded cross-cultural approach to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis in Asian countries. </p><p>Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought will be a rich resource for psychoanalysts academics and students interested in Lacan and religion the intellectual and cultural relationship between Asian and Western thought and Mahayana Buddhism more generally.</p>