Non-self Psychology: The Buddhist phenomenology of self experience
A follow-up article to The Subject Matter of Psychology: Psyche, Dasein, non-self (Existential Analysis, 31.2)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/mk2hz656Keywords:
Buddhism, aggregates, psyche, self, phenomenology, non-self, psychology, skandhasAbstract
Understanding that the essential subject matter of psychology is not an object, thing or self-enclosed entity, this article presents the Buddhist psychology of non-self as a phenomenology of self-experiencing. Through the dizzying interaction of five psychic constituents (skandhas), emotional reactivity and mental fixation reify a self-entity where there is none.
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