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From the clinic to culture, where psychoanalysis meets the everyday.
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Metaphysics, Ontology, & Ethics: In Psychoanalysis & Secular Buddhism (opens the original)
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In this episode of Speaking Body, I read a Substack piece reflecting on thinking publicly, revising ideas, and appreciating listener feedback. I situate the essay in summertime observations and my immersion in Stephen Batchelor, then revisit my claim that Batchelor reframes Buddhism as ethical practice rather than a metaphysical or ontological system. Drawing on Lacanian aphorisms about the impossibility of a “metalanguage,” I argue both psychoanalysis and secular Buddhism prioritize changing on
The Intersection of Psychoanalysis & Secular Buddhism (opens the original)
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For the first time, Neil reads a written piece aloud to promote the Speaking Body Substack (speakingbody.substack.com) and to improve his writing by hearing it spoken. The piece, titled “The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Secular Buddhism” with the subtitle “An Ethics That Resists the Seductive Feeling of Being Certain,” describes his long academic life shaped by school calendars and his current summer-like mode of slower research and reflection. He discusses discovering secular Buddhist Ste
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