Yoga and psychology : language, memory, and mysticism
East and West Psychology and religion Yoga Religion and Psychology Freud, Sigmund, Jung, C. G e-böcker
State University of New York Press
2002
EISBN 9780585491370
Āgama in the yoga sūtras of Patañjali.
The yoga psychology underlying Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya.
Yoga in the Vairāgya-Śataka of Bhartṛhari.
Freud, Jung, and yoga on memory.
HWhere Jung draws the line in his acceptance of Patañjali's yoga.
The limits of human nature in Yoga and transpersonal psychology.
Annotation Harold Coward explores how the psychological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to intellectual developments both East and West. Foundational for Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist thought and spiritual practice, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the classical statement of Eastern Yoga, are unique in their emphasis on the nature and importance of psychological processes. Yoga's influence is explored in the work of both the seminal Indian thinker Bhartrhari (c. 600 C.E.) and among key figures in Western psychology: founders Freud and Jung, as well as contemporary transpersonalists such as Washburn, Tart, and Ornstein. Coward shows how the yogic notion of psychological processes makes Bhartrhari's philosophy of language and his theology of revelation possible. He goes on to explore how Western psychology has been influenced by incorporating or rejecting Patanjali's Yoga. The implications of these trends in Western thought for mysticism and memory are examined as well.
The yoga psychology underlying Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya.
Yoga in the Vairāgya-Śataka of Bhartṛhari.
Freud, Jung, and yoga on memory.
HWhere Jung draws the line in his acceptance of Patañjali's yoga.
The limits of human nature in Yoga and transpersonal psychology.
Annotation Harold Coward explores how the psychological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to intellectual developments both East and West. Foundational for Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist thought and spiritual practice, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the classical statement of Eastern Yoga, are unique in their emphasis on the nature and importance of psychological processes. Yoga's influence is explored in the work of both the seminal Indian thinker Bhartrhari (c. 600 C.E.) and among key figures in Western psychology: founders Freud and Jung, as well as contemporary transpersonalists such as Washburn, Tart, and Ornstein. Coward shows how the yogic notion of psychological processes makes Bhartrhari's philosophy of language and his theology of revelation possible. He goes on to explore how Western psychology has been influenced by incorporating or rejecting Patanjali's Yoga. The implications of these trends in Western thought for mysticism and memory are examined as well.
