Notes on the Aniconic

The Foundations of Psychology in Ontology

By (author) Eric Rhode

Book cover: Notes on the Aniconic

Extent: 158, 158 pages

Publisher: Karnac Books

Subjects: Philosophy, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(December 2003)

ISBN: 9780954323110

8.98 x 5.83 inches

Price: $30.95

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‘Eric Rhode seeks to explore a domain that has long been missing in psychoanalytic psychology, the ineffable domain of ontology or existence. He describes a multi-layered, numinous domain that engulfs the most ordinary reaches of our lives but remains barely known to us. An utterly profound work.’ James Grotstein from the Preface

Foreword by James Grotstein 1. Contact barrier and transference 2. Icon 3. The invention of mind and body 4. Beginnings 5. The threshold between psychology and ontology 6. A calabash in fragments 7. The indistinct 8. Inspiration and breakdown 9. Metaphysical space: 'The argument compel us to bring to light, and to describe, a form that is difficult and obscure' 10. The organs of divine intelligence 11. Body as an intermediary for existence itself 12. Discovery and revelation 13. 'The divine artificers make receptacles in order to create time' 14. The incompatibility of prayer and event 15. Fusion, separation, and the contact barrier 16. Centre and void as reciprocals 17. The Word as ear-mouth 18. 'A lack of precision in the mediaeval descriptions, not only of architectural patterns, but of all geometric forms' 19. The body of the king as the calendar of his people 20. The role of concealment in the disclosures of time 21. Placenta and womb as means of creation 22. Concrening axiality and threshold

  • By (author) Eric Rhode