Reading Notes:

Review

1. Brockelman, Bruner, Foucault
        Self: Single Line -> Vectors Centered on a Point -> Nodes in a Web
2. Graham, Nelson, Campbell
        Graham and Nelson: Secret Self, Private Self, Public Self
        Campbell: Remembering as Self (not just the remembered self): Memory and Present Intention (interpretation)
3. Augustine and Freud: Archetypes of Autobiographical Self
        Augustine: Confession and Personal (historical) Memory, Penitence, and Redemption through Faith
        Freud: The Ambiguity of the Conflicted Self:
            ego, id, super-ego; conscious, preconscious, unconscious
            eros and thanatos, love and hate, life and death
        Tribal polytheism to Christian monotheism


Zhuangzi: Narrative Self, Wordless Dao

1. The book of the Zhuangzi
        Authorship of the Zhuangzi
        Zhuangzi as author and as character

2. Episodic nature of the Zhuangzi, its Momentary View of Time, and Nature

3. "Progressing" through the Dao vs. "Coursing through the Dao"
        Three meanings of "Dao" as the "Way"
        Perspective -> Dissolution of Boundaries -> Oneness (40, 44, 38)

4. Dao beyond Words (95, 141).       

5. Populating the Dao:
        Living in the Dao: Hinge in the Socket (35).
        Cook Ding (45-46); Crippled Shu and the Madman of Chu (pp. 61-61); Woodworker Qing (129).
        Zhuangzi's Wife's Death: Religion, Love, and Death (115).
        Zhuangzi and Death: Mr. Skull (116-117).