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The title of this book suggests a work on Zen and psychoanalysis, particularly the Soto Zen promulgated by the innovative and influential thirteenth-century Japanese Zen teacher Eihei in relation to psychoanalysis as elaborated by Jacques Lacan. This promise finds expression in the extended quotation on the frontispiece by Masao Abe, the noted Kyoto School Zen scholar, and by the author's initial comments in his introduction. I also get this impression from comments in the acknowledgments, where Moncayo makes it clear that he will not confuse the identities of the two disciplines, nor will he isolate them. I am reminded here of Coltart's (1992) comment, which points to the internal integration of both disciplines by the individual who practices both. She addresses the “ludicrous falsity in any notion that for part of each day, one is a sort of practicing Buddhist and for another part, a sort of practicing analyst, and for the bits in between a sort of nothing” (p. 173). Does Moncayo succeed in meeting his stated agenda?
I have found this contribution to be both much less and much more. The Zen-initiated reader will immediately feel Dogen's influence on the author, whether explicitly stated or not. My guess is that the author's long-term training and immersion into Soto Zen as an ordained