"What a wonderful book! Jeremy Safran has assembled an absolutely stellar group of writers and has himself contributed an illuminating introduction. The essays are riveting, one after another after another, and the book is the rare edited collection with real thematic unity. If you think you might have an interest in the intersection of psychoanalysis and Buddhism, this is the place to start. If you already know you're interested, once you look at the table of contents you'll find (at least I did) that you want to let Psychoanalysis and Buddhism displace whatever you were going to read next."

JEREMY D. SAFRAN, Ph.D., is a professor at the New School in New York, and the editor of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism.

Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface	xv
Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism As Cultural Institutions	1
Being Somebody and Being Nobody: A Reexamination of the Understanding of Self in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism	35
Commentary: Somebodies and Nobodies	80
Reply: Can We Say What the Self "Really" Is?	86
Tibetan Buddhism and a Mystical Psychoanalysis	101
Commentary: Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Quest	115
Reply: The Persistence of Spiritual Shyness in Psychoanalysis	122
The Dissolving of Dissolving Itself	131
Commentary: Imagining Langan: A Transcendence of Self	146
Reply: A Saturated Solution	158
An Analyst's Surrender	169
Commentary: A Contemplative Response	189
Reply: Swimming Lessons	191
Moments of Truth--Truths of Moment	199
Commentary: "East Is East and West Is West and Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet" (Or Shall They?)	221
Reply: East and West Are Already Meeting--What's Shaking Out?	230
Your Ordinary Mind	251
Commentary: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: Two Extraordinary Paths to an Ordinary Mind	286
Reply: The Path Is Ordinary Too	293
Transference and Transformation in Buddhism and Psychoanalysis	301
Commentary: Seeking and Subjectivity in Buddhism and Psychoanalysis	318
Reply: Increasing Our Subjective Freedom	323
The Finger Pointing at the Moon: Zen Practice and the Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis	331
Commentary: Where Is the "Spirit" in a Spiritual Conception of Psychoanalysis?	364
Reply: Psychoanalysis as a Secular and Nontheistic Spirituality	371
A Well-Lived Life: Psychoanalytic and Buddhist Contributions	387
Commentary: Managing Traffic on the Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and Buddhism	410
Reply: Beyond Eurocentrism and Orientocentrism	418
List of Contributors	427
Index	433