Publisher's Synopsis
Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. Translation. A sequel to THE YIN-YANG JOURNAL, this book is a collection of observations in Jungian and transcendentalist terms concerning the social ego, it follows a sequence of themes suggested by the Maxims of Han Shan, the 16th century Chinese Buddhist poet known as the Cold Mountain Poet. "The authority figure has the power to enforce his decisions and to direct the actions of his underlings. Within the dynamics of Psyche such is the function that the social ego usurps, like an internal Mussolini. It assumes that 'all within' (the many attributes of Psyche) will obey il Duce. This is a very big assumption indeed."
