MEDIA

BEING (and) ZEN

(Unabridged Edition)

BEING (and) ZEN is a collection of original 2023 – 2026 essays, talks and presentations exploring Being and being human in relation to the energy-matter-information of the physical world, including insights of (Zen) Buddhism and Dogen’s Shōbōgenzō.

Human relationality (inter-subject-object-ivity); ipseity (auto-reflection), transcendence (of one-in-the-world to one-as-the-world); ontic states (body-mind-location) and being-a-conscious-I (“consciousness”) are explored as one’s existence-participation in life among others.

Similarities of selected ideas of Dogen, M. Heidegger and J. Lacan on mirroring reflections are suggested for further study.

Uniqueness, Volume I

(Paperback Edition)

Volume I of UNIQUENESS is a collection of original 2015 – 2020 essays, talks and presentations exploring selected aspects of individuality, intersubjectivity, dysregulation of internal / interpersonal (Self) states, ipsocentricity (”narcissism”) and formation of the “I”.

A new model of individual uniqueness as one’s Body-Location-Experience-Person and a new approach to “disorders of personality” as “homeostatic / relational vulnerabilities” are introduced and examined for possible use in clinical theory of psychopathology and treatment.

Uniqueness, Volume II

(Paperback Edition)

Volume II of UNIQUENESS is a collection of original 2020 – 2023 essays, talks and presentations exploring the intersection of individuality, psychopathology and the topographic fragmentation of uniqueness of being.

Symptoms, signs, diagnostic markers as disruptions of the here-now; ipsocentric (“narcissistic”) acts; positionality of Desire as the “I / Self” states and spatiotemporal / perspectival transformations of psychopathology towards ontological health, wellbeing and resilience are examined for possible use in clinical theory and treatment.