Reading Notes:
Review
1. Brockelman, Bruner, Foucault
Self: Single Line -> Vectors
Centered on a Point -> Nodes in a Web
2. Graham, Nelson, Campbell
Graham and Nelson: Secret Self,
Private Self, Public Self
Campbell: Remembering as Self (not
just the remembered self): Memory and Present Intention (interpretation)
3. Augustine and Freud: Archetypes of Autobiographical Self
Augustine: Confession and Personal
(historical) Memory, Penitence, and Redemption through Faith
Freud: The Ambiguity of the
Conflicted Self:
ego, id,
super-ego; conscious, preconscious, unconscious
eros and
thanatos, love and hate, life and death
Tribal polytheism to Christian
monotheism
Zhuangzi:
Narrative Self, Wordless Dao
1. The book of the Zhuangzi
Authorship of the Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi as author and as
character
2. Episodic nature of the Zhuangzi, its Momentary View of Time,
and Nature
3. "Progressing" through the Dao vs. "Coursing through the Dao"
Three meanings of "Dao" as the "Way"
Perspective -> Dissolution of
Boundaries -> Oneness (40, 44, 38)
4. Dao beyond Words (95, 141).
5. Populating the Dao:
Living in the Dao: Hinge in the Socket
(35).
Cook Ding (45-46); Crippled Shu and
the Madman of Chu (pp. 61-61); Woodworker Qing (129).
Zhuangzi's Wife's Death: Religion,
Love, and Death (115).
Zhuangzi and Death: Mr. Skull
(116-117).