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J Anal Psychol
September 2023
City University of Macau, Macau, China.
This paper examines the symbolism of the cultural image Sun Wukong (the Monkey King), a Chinese legendary hero, and how it influenced an eight-year-old boy's psychic development. Through an analysis of Sun Wukong's life from his birth to attaining Buddhahood, a three-phase healing process is identified in Sun Wukong's tale and the psychotherapeutic process: "naming and initiating," "nurturing and taming," and "transforming and transcending," proposed by Dr. Heyong Shen.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Psychoanal
October 2018
CRPMS (Centre de Recherche Psychanalyse Médecine et Société) [Centre for Research on Psychoanalysis Medicine and Society] 8, rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris, France.
This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad, the matrix behind the Western conception of heroism. The contribution reveals the psychological link binding the words and acts of the most valiant of warriors in Antiquity, which is situated in myth and termed "the Eros of the absolute." The paroxystic ideality underlying the aforementioned myth, which is rooted in the anthropological need to believe, is at the origin of Achilles' legendary μῆνις, that is, the flood of rage triggered by contests for supremacy, aggravated by the loss of his war comrade, aroused by the drama of aging and death, and then transfigured through song and memory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Psychoanal
July 2017
CRPMS (Centre de Recherche Psychanalyse, Médecine et Société) [Centre for Research on Psychoanalysis, Medicine and Society] 8, rue Albert Einstein, 75013, Paris, France.
This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad, the matrix behind the Western conception of heroism. The contribution reveals the psychological link binding the words and acts of the most valiant of warriors in Antiquity, which is situated in myth and termed "the Eros of the absolute." The paroxystic ideality underlying the aforementioned myth, which is rooted in the anthropological need to believe, is at the origin of Achilles' legendary μῆνις, that is, the flood of rage triggered by contests for supremacy, aggravated by the loss of his war comrade, aroused by the drama of aging and death, and then transfigured through song and memory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Diagn Res
May 2017
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Delhi, India.
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