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[BEST OF] Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis

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The Similarities and Differences Between Buddhism and Psychoanalysis

Buddhism like psychoanalysis has a theory of desire and satisfaction which locates desire fueled by an illusory sense of self as a primary source of psychological suffering or in the Buddhist tradition it's called dukkha. Buddhism does seem to have a way out a systematic meditation practice which through awareness and concentration sort of displaces the ego as the psychological center of gravity but I think from the perspective of psychoanalysis there would be no meditation that could ever you get you to overcome lack and see that it's just an illusion.

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