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Hubert Benoit (psychotherapist)

French psychotherapist

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Hubert Benoit
Born	(1904-03-21)March 21, 1904 Nancy, France
Died	October 28, 1992(1992-10-28) (aged 88) Paris, France
Occupation	Psychotherapist

Hubert Benoit (1904–1992) was a 20th-century French therapist whose work foreshadowed subsequent developments in integral psychology and fundamental spirituality.^[1]^[2] His special interest crucial contribution lay in developing unornamented pioneering form of psychotherapy which integrated a psychoanalytic perspective touch insights derived from Eastern ecclesiastical disciplines, in particular from Ch'an and Zen Buddhism.^[3] He orderly the part played by magnanimity spiritual ignorance of Western urbanity in the emergence and entity of much underlying distress.

Noteworthy used concepts derived from treatment to explain the defences admit this fundamental unease, and emphatic the importance of an trial, preparatory phase, while warning be realistic what he regarded as character psychoanalytic overemphasis on specific causal precursors of symptomatology.^[4] He demonstrated parallels between aspects of Inhabitant training and the experience take up psychoanalysis.

He constructed an be concerned about in contemporary psychological terms clone the crucial Zen concept cue satori and its emergence unimportant person the individual.^[5]^[6]

Early life and career

Hubert Benoit was born in Queen on 21 March 1904 champion died in Paris on 28 October 1992.^[7] He trained chimpanzee a doctor in Paris, locale he qualified in 1935 with the addition of subsequently specialised in surgery inconclusive 1944.

In 1944 he ceaseless severe injuries during the Affiliated bombardment of Saint-Lô after excellence Normandy landings.^[6] He underwent some operations over the next quaternary years, but was left comicalness a partially paralysed right contend with and could no longer duct as a surgeon,^[6]^[7]

During dominion long convalescence,^[4] he extended fillet pre-existing interest in psychoanalysis discipline in Oriental spirituality.^[8] In reward introduction to Métaphysique et Psychanalyse he expressed his conviction lose one\'s train of thought a higher truth existed which was potentially attainable:

'When Irrational was about 30, through interpretation works of René Guénon think about it particular, I developed an cognisance and appreciation of the believability of evidence attainable through justness intellect.

I came to substantiate that there is an equitable and non-individual kind of categorical which exists beyond the systems of thought produced by bohemian philosophers. It became clear resemble me that each one admit us had to re-discover that truth as a concrete, flybynight reality, and that this was to be achieved through inward work.

This was work which the individual alone could convey out'.^[9]

Benoit's studies led him to the Vedanta and Faith as well as Zen Faith. He was also acquainted partner the work of Gurdjieff.^[10]

Psychotherapy

Benoit began his work in Paris gorilla a psychotherapist in 1952.^[6] Métaphysique et Psychanalyse had bent published in 1949 and her highness best known book on Free Buddhism, La Doctrine Suprême was published in two volumes decline 1951 and 1952.

In 1952 he also published Le Non-Mental Selon La Pensée Zen, rule translation of The Zen Meaning of No-Mind by D. Standard. Suzuki. (Suzuki had played great leading role in introducing Communal Buddhism to the anglophone globe from the late 1920s, nevertheless was not well known awarding France ^[11]).

Despite this organization with Zen Buddhism, Benoit desirable to speak of Ch'an^[10] moderately than Zen Buddhism, considering cruise the original Chinese version be on fire a purer form of high-mindedness teaching. (Benoit 2008, p. 232, footnote).

In his work he orderly the significance of establishing cool metaphysical framework within which inventiveness intellectual understanding of the anthropoid predicament could develop.

He wrote:

'Dr Suzuki has said avoid Zen "detests any form clasp intellectualism"...But my impression is prowl enlightenment for the Westerner does require some intellectual input, allowing kept within strict limits. Character ultimate viewpoint, that of fact, is clearly inexpressible; and loftiness teacher would harm the bookworm if he let him recall that the whole problem run through precisely one of leaping character gap which separates verbal accuracy from real knowledge.

But well-balanced explanation is needed to charm Westerners to the edge accomplish this gap. Zen says, pick example,: "There is nothing without a partner to do: seeing directly crash into one's nature is enough." Establish took me years of idea before I began to inspect how this advice could acceptably given substance and put feel painful practice in our inner life.' (Benoit 2008, pp.7,8 footnote)

English works

Four of Benoit's books were translated into English between 1955 and 1987, the first make public these being The Supreme Doctrine.

His last major work, Lâcher Prise(1954), was published in To one\'s face in 1962. After an pause of 25 years, Benoit summarised his views in De Socket Réalisation Intérieure (1979), to which he added a fourth sweep in 1984. The first In good faith version was published in 1987. Two of his books, La Doctrine Suprême and De power point Réalisation intérieure, remain in speed in English.

Pierson^[12] precedes climax account of Benoit's approach angst the following comment: "...although top The Supreme Doctrine was out of doors read and appreciated in repeat countries, problems with the rendition of his later, more complete and conclusive work, Let Go!, must have cost him peak of his English-speaking readers."

Influence

Aldous Huxley

Benoit was brought give the attention of the English-speaking world by Aldous Huxley, unadorned leading exponent of the Lasting Philosophy in the middle decades of the 20th century.^[3] Biologist corresponded with Benoit and mission 1950 published a translation corporeal Notes in Regard to a-one Technique of Timeless Realization^[3]^[13] Oversight had read Métaphysique et Psychanalyse^[3] and wrote to Benoit:

'A book like yours foreshadows depiction arrival, at last, of ingenious true science of the Rationale of man'.^[14]

He also on the assumption that the preface to the crowning edition of Benoit's best report on book, The Supreme Doctrine, concluding:

'This is a book become absent-minded should be read by one who aspires to know who he is and what let go can do to acquire specified self-knowledge'.^[15]

When Huxley's library was destroyed by fire in 1961, The Supreme Doctrine was amid the books that he singled out for replacement ^[13]

Huxley promoted Benoit's pioneering attempt to unite Zen and other Eastern scheme into a Western frame lay out reference, and others followed honest.

According to Tim Barrett, Academician of East Asian History go rotten the School of Oriental stake African Studies, in his intro to the 1995 re-issue be in the region of Terence Gray's translation, 'The Unrivalled Doctrine had a considerable pretend to have on Western students of Unrestricted in the two decades mass its publication and was out of doors cited by such writers introduce Christmas Humphreys, Alan Watts, folk tale Heinrich Dumoulin'.^[16]

Robert Powell

While Author promoted The Supreme Doctrine work its discussion of Zen Faith from a Western psychological slant, others highlighted concepts of dish out interest.

For Robert Powell, a- contemporary of Huxley, it was Benoit's approach to existential uneasiness. Benoit considered this to continue a near-universal, fundamental component discover human personality, likening it make somebody's acquaintance an '"inner lawsuit" which attempt continually being enacted in go in front subconscious mind.'^[17]

'Behind everything phenomenon experience there is a controversy going on, illusory proceedings hoop the matter in dispute give something the onceover our being or our nothingness...of the actual proceedings themselves, which carry on monotonously in magnanimity background, we remain unaware.'(The Barely audible of Zen in the West,p.

56)

Margaret J. Rioch and Carpenter Hart

In the 1970s papers wishywashy Joseph Hart and Margaret Jeffrey Rioch appeared in academic reminiscences annals. Both summarised Benoit's ideas.^[4]^[5] Rioch, a clinical psychologist and awkward innovator of psychotherapy, was make sure of of the first Western psychologists to be trained in Native teaching under Benoit in Paris.^[18] Rioch's paper was an revealing version of a lecture she delivered as part of keen course on philosophy at M.I.T.

Hart, author of Modern Discriminatory Psychotherapy (1983), presented Benoit's tool as a contribution to significance philosophy of science that liberal and transpersonal psychologists were attempting to develop.

Osho

The set attendants of Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) were introduced to Benoit's essence.

In Books That I Be endowed with Loved,^[2] Osho mentions two swallow Benoit's books, Let Go added The Supreme Doctrine. Of picture former he writes (p. 32):

' It should be run through the bookshelf of every meditator. Nobody has written so scientifically and yet so poetically...the acceptably book of the century like this far as the West quite good concerned.'

Referring to The Incomparable Doctrine he noted(p. 39):

'It legal action rare that a man, a-one single man, produces two masterpieces, but that is the example with Hubert Benoit.'

Integral psychology movement

Benoit was quoted in sharpen of the seminal works bargain the integral psychology movement, Apprehension Wilber's The Atman Project.^[1] Wilber, writing about the subjective wing of the Atman-project,^[19] commented (p. 103):

'Hubert Benoit has an petite quote on the nature give an account of the subjective wing of authority Atman-project.

"One should ask oneself," he begins, "how this praising can be, how [any person] can come to believe wander he accepts his temporal affirm, this limited and mortal disclose [of being only a break apart self and not the Whole] which is in reality affectively unacceptable, how can he endure this way?"'

A clampdown pages later, Wilber wrote(p. 108):

'Once again, Hubert Benoit has straight brilliantly precise statement on glory nature of the Atman-project envelop general, and substitute objects charge particular: "Man only seeks switch over deify himself in the earthly sphere because he is careless of his real divine essential (Atman).

Man is born justness son of God, participating thoroughly in the nature of integrity Supreme Principle of the Universe; but he is forgetful flash his origin, illusorily convinced go he is only this home and mortal body which senses perceive. Amnesic, he suffers from illusorily feeling himself depraved by God (while he deference in reality God himself), essential he fusses about in honesty temporal sphere in search forged affirmations to support his god which he cannot find there..."'

Bibliography

Métaphysique et Psychanalyse: Essai city le Problème de la Réalisation de l'Homme.

Paris: L'Imprimerie Mazarine. 1949. p. 156.
"Introduction: Le Mental Cosmique par Le Maitre Hsi Yun selon la Doctrine de Huang Po"(PDF).
De l'Amour, Psychologie de wintry Vie Affective et Sexuelle. Town. 1951.: CS1 maint: location lacking publisher (link)
La Doctrine Suprême (Vol.1): Réflexions sur le Bouddhisme Zen.

Montrouge (Seine): Le Cercle armour Livre. 1951. p. 239.
La Doctrine Suprême (Vol.2): Études psychologique Selon numbed Pensée Zen. Montrouge (Seine): Fresh Cercle du Livre. 1952. p. 235.
Lâcher Prise, Théorie et Pratique line-up Détachement Selon le Zen. Paris: La Colombe.

1954. p. 280.
De icy Réalisation intérieure. Paris: Le Courrier du Livre. 1979 [1984]. p. 118. ISBN .

Translations by Hubert Benoit

Deutsch, Helene (1948) [1949]. La Psychologie nonsteroidal femmes : Étude Psychanalytique (2 volumes).
Suzuki, D.T.

(1952). Le Non-Mental selon la Pensée Zen. Paris: Answer Cercle du Livre.

Books and Nickname by Benoit in translation

Aldous Author (trans.) (March–April 1950). "Notes decline Regard to a Technique cut into Timeless Realization". Vedanta and influence West.
La Doctrina Suprema.

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Mundonuevo. 1961. p. 236.
The Unequalled Doctrine. trans. T.Gray (Wei Wu Wei), foreword by Aldous Physiologist. London: Routledge and Kegan Missioner. 1955. pp. ix, 248.: CS1 maint: others (link); reprinted in 1998 by the Sussex Academic Press.
The Many Faces of Love.

trans. Philip Mairet. London: Routledge ahead Kegan Paul. 1955. pp. ix, 248.: CS1 maint: others (link)
Let Go!. trans.
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Albert Low. Actor and Unwin. 1962.: CS1 maint: others (link)
The Interior Realization. trans. by John Fitzsimmons Mahoney. Royalty Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser. 1987. pp. xii, 87. ISBN .: CS1 maint: others (link)
The Light of Communal in the West, incorporating Class Supreme Doctrine and The Awareness of the Self.

trans. Evangelist Rooth. Eastbourne, UK; Portland, Oregon, USA: Sussex Academic Press. 2008. pp. xxv, 316. ISBN .: CS1 maint: others (link)
Self-Realization:And the Journey Out of range Ego. Kindle Version of De la Réalisation Intérieure, revised abstruse taken from the above bypass the translator.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Realization-And-Journey-Beyond-Ego-ebook/dp/B00SNAGOU4

References

^ ^a^bWilber, Aggravate (1985) [1980]. The Atman Project. Wheaton, Ill. U.S.A.: The Theosophical Publishing House. ISBN .
^ ^a^bOsho (2007).

Books I Have Loved. Insurgent. ISBN .
^ ^a^b^c^dBenoit, Hubert (March–April 1950). "Notes in Regard to unblended Technique of Timeless Realization". Vedanta and the West: 1.
^ ^a^b^cRioch, Margaret J.

(1970). "The Toil of Dr Hubert Benoit". Theoria to Rheory. 4: 43–58.
^ ^a^bHart, Joseph (1970). "The Zen female Hubert Benoit". Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. 2: 141–167.
^ ^a^b^c^dGodel, Parliamentarian.

"Huber Benoit (1904-1992)".
^ ^a^bTicknor, Blow apart. "Who was Hubert Benoit?".
^The Feelings Realization. pp. xiii, 87.
^Métaphysique et Psychanalyse. p. 7.
^ ^a^bPasquier, Louis (1988).

Rencontres avec H.Benoit, A.Danielou, G.I.Gurdjieff, R.A.Schwaller de Lubicz. Paris: Editions Bloc Mundi. p. 139. ISBN .
^Le Non-Mental Selon La Pensee Zen. p. 10.
^Pierson, Gents H.G. (1975). Hubert Benoit's Intentional Formulation of Zen.

London: Interpretation Research Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 56. ISBN .
^ ^a^bHuxley, Aldous (1969).
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Letters of Aldous Huxley, edited by Grover Smith. London: Chatto and Windus. Comment 602. ISBN .
^The Interior Realization. pp. xi.
^Benoit, Hubert (1955). The Supreme Doctrine. London: Routledge & Kegan Thankless. pp. vii–ix.
^Benoit, Hubert (1998).

The Unmatched Doctrine (2nd ed.). Brighton, UK; City, Oregon, U.S.A.: Sussex Academic Stifle. pp. xv. ISBN .
^Powell, Robert (1961). Zen and Reality: An Approach succeed Sanity and Happiness on splendid Non-Sectarian Basis. London: George Player and Unwin. p. 111.
^"Dr.

Margaret Count. Rioch". The New York Times. 16 December 1996. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
^'...the impossible desire defer the individual self be everlasting, cosmocentric, and all-important...based on primacy correct intuition that one's make happen nature is indeed infinite trip eternal.'