Twelfth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

It is time for psychology to get in touch with itself. This paper aims at the psychoanalysis of the highest and deepest parts of psychology—correspondence between the infantile and the mystical. Both parts carry in them a promise of absorption which echoes in itself a ground zero for psychology. It is about noticing the fundamentals and witnessing a dependent origination. Krishna was a man of the future. He is beyond post-postmodernism. It is on the grounds that Krishna’s truth is ‘neither this nor that, this also, that also’—a paradoxical site of accepting the totality of existence. Different people saw different facets of who he is. For some he is God, for some, he is a crook, for some, he is a lover, for some, he is an eloquent flute player, for some, he is a truly audacious warrior, the most vibrant embodiment, a yogi of the paramount order, and so on. We will see what both the analysts—Krishna and Winnicott have to offer in the understanding of the infantile in our time. Both of them allow us to explore the most profound and the most serious aspect of life playfully. If we want to be-in, be-with, and finally be the truth, we will need Leela ‘play.’ At the intersection of psychoanalysis and culture, can Winnicott’s true self dance to the flute of Krishna?