Dancing In Silence

Dancing an Embodied Sinthome

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores what each practice can offer the other. It takes as its starting point Jacques Lacan’s assertion that James Joyce’s literary works helped him create what Lacan terms a sinthome, thereby preventing psychosis. That is, Joyce’s use of written language helped him maintain a “normal” existence despite showing tendencies towards psychosis. Here it is proposed that writing was only the method through which Joyce worked but that the key element in his sinthome was play, specifically the play of the Lacanian real. The book moves on to consider how dance operates similarly to Joyce’s writing and details the components of Joyce’s sinthome, not as a product that keeps him sane, but as an interminable process for coping with the (Lacanian) real. The author contends that Joyce goes beyond words and meaning, using language’s metre, tone, rhythm, and cadence to play with the real, mirroring his experience of it and confining it to his works, creating order in the chaos of his mind. The art of dance is shown to be a process that likewise allows one to play with the real. However, it is emphasized that dance goes further: it also teaches someone how to play if one doesn't already know how. This book offers a compelling analysis that sheds new light on the fields of psychoanalysis and dance and looks to what this can tell us about—and the possibilities for—both practices, concluding that psychoanalysis and dance both offer processes that open possibilities that might otherwise seem impossible. This original analysis will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, art therapy, and dance studies.

The Birth Of Being

Philosofia perennis

Philosophia perennis self help non fiction , inner guide to meditation to inner being witness consciousness to universal consciousness to nothingness emptiness to non being body incorporeal where time , space , forms , duality of mind completely annihilate into formless awareness thst is just i am ness infinite light relaxation ultimate essence of the core and source of the mystery of the universal body and of life and death and of all duality of mind eternity itself never born or die no begin or end eternity is infinite infinity of freedom from all and everything forms time space , duality of mind the real freedom infinite bliss sacred holy infinite silence peace ,a pulsation of light a pulsation of creativity quality such as celebration playfulness love intelligence , Philosophia perennis is really a majestic book that goes in the deepest profundity of mysticism the inner science of the mystery reality of an organic unity Philosophia perennis it pierce the really inner being witness consciousness of an organic unity and make clear the quality of your inner being that are in essence pure love ,source and core of intelligence the chief quality of your inner being are witness consciousness and mirror like quality that reflect all and everything that surround you in the moment and next moment the mirror is empty again reflecting next situation that follow , is not coolness but the nature spontaneity of your soul and your inner being is the bridge link from the known to the unknown of universal consciousness formless awareness , Philosophia perennis a master piece of mysticism a big book of diamond of mysticism i suggest to all humanity to go through this enchanting book of mysticism the fifth essence of mysticism is on Philosophia perennis welcome Angelo Aulisa