From Meister Eckhart to Werner Erhard: Developing the Modern Subject Psychoanalysis can be understood as a technique to regulate the subject and to foster the internalization of societal regulations and therefore stays within the paradigm of classical modern subjectivization whose point of departure Morgan locates in Seuse’s teachings. By contrast, the ESTs are reminiscent of Eckhart’s concept, although under very different conditions indeed. In Adam Curtis’s 2002 BBC documentary The Century of the Self, Erhard describes the ultimate goal of EST as follows: The real point of the EST Training is to go down through layer after layer after layer until you got to the last layer and peeled it off where the recognition was that it’s really all meaningless and empty. All the constrictions, all the rules you placed on yourself were gone and what you’re left with is nothing. And nothing is an extremely powerful place to stand because only from nothing you can freely invent yourself.[2] telospress/from-meister-eckhart-to-werner-erharddeveloping-the-modern-subject/
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