Many concepts and ideas have been introduced in this preceding. These now require a broad, clarifying structure. At this point I am going to prepend a scheme to serve as an abstract of the last and an orientation for the following chapters. The various stages of yoga and of analytic science will be set side by side again.
On the other hand, Seidler goes further in saying: “The more an analyst is perceivable in his being different as an independent person, the more abundant the unification of his functionality (as an interpreter, or explainer) with the patient’s self-perception will be.”
Still it all sounds as if East and West were infinitely far away from each other. Perhaps the principle of aesthetics could make it possible for us to understand how deeply Kirpal Singh was filled with the sight of his teacher Sawan Singh were we to imagine an art-maniac in view of a masterpiece or a landscape-enthusiast in ecstasy because of certain surroundings?
Psychotherapist G. Seidler indicates exchangeability in the gaze relationship in his book ‘Der Blick des Anderen’ (The Other’s Gaze).1 Seidler distinguishes three ‚gaze-images’. The first, that of the narcissist who is already so much blinded by and fascinated by his own image, that he sees nothing other than himself, and with that, actually nothing.
