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Are there Buddhist conceptions of the unconscious? If so, are they more Freudian, Jungian, or something else? If not, can Buddhist conceptions be reconciled with the Freudian, Jungian, or other models? These are some of the questions that have motivated modern scholarship to approach ālāyavijñāna, the storehouse consciousness, formulated in Yogācāra Buddhism as a subliminal reservoir of tendencies, habits, and future possibilities. Tao Jiang argues convincingly that such questions are inherently problematic because they frame their interpretations of the Buddhist notion largely in terms of responses to modern psychology. He proposes that, if we are to understand ālāyavijñāna properly and compare it with the unconscious responsibly, we need to change the way the questions are posed so that ālāyavijñāna and the unconscious can first be understood within their own contexts and then recontextualized within a dialogical setting. In so doing, certain paradigmatic assumptions embedded in the original frameworks of Buddhist and modern psychological theories are exposed. Jiang brings together Xuan Zang’s ālāyavijñāna and Freud’s and Jung’s unconscious to focus on what the differences

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Author

Tao Jiang

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press; University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824861988

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Philosophy, Religion

Rating

4.12 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14