An Explanation of the Master's Gaze

The look into the 'master's' eyes, 'darshan' in India, shines. A devotee's 'concerns', his complexes, are simply outshined. Transference is accelerated to the point of primal transference, to rapture or ecstasy of love.1 When practicing Yoga, however, one then must deal with the usual suppression in which a SPEAKS occurs, meaning dispelled wishes express themselves and must be processed.

They are then processed in that the teaching, or meditation exercises, includes another quite different shines/speaks.

It is a combination of the echo rhetoric with the repetition of the Sanskrit names which cause a guidance of the 'psychosis' up to the 'Other's order'. More on this subject follows later on.

In psychoanalysis primal transference only occurs in a much hidden manner within itself. It could be moved in the direction of Freudian death instinct (death drive), which in reality is not a drive but is formed by the aggressiveness which arises from earliest identification modes. Indian K. T. Behanan has therefore also shown that the Freudian death instinct is identical to a constantly stressed "drive for liberation" (Moksha) in yoga.

But an Indian would only recognize it as a goal, Nirvana, or the Positive. The death instinct, understood as a drive to "return to the inorganic", is a concept that has always caused Freud's successors extreme difficulties. In fact, the concept of the SPEAKS is more suitable here, because primary transference can be understood as a permanent murmuring, a constant articulation for a higher and better way to solve problems (Analytic Psychocatharsis).

The main emphasis of the psychoanalytic method lies in the interpretation of transference. It uncovers the usual suppressions - designed against the background of primal transference (SHINES). So actually, the preferences of both psychoanalysis and yoga are very well represented this schema. Both have their limits. Since a great personality in Yoga is no longer to be found, I feel obliged to shape an independent and new method based on both of the others, and which can facilitate psychoanalysis.

 

1 Freud, S., GW vol. V, p. 294