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Reveries of Well-Being in the Shih-P’ in: From Psychology to Ontology

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Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana ((ANHU,volume 56))

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According to Bachelard, poetic reverie is intimately connected with the state of well-being. He states repeatedly: “Reverie teaches us that the essence of being is well-being”;1 and “reverie is a consciousness of well-being”;2 and again, “There is no well-being without reverie. No reverie without well-being”.3 This paper attempts to substantiate this claim by an analysis of selected poems from the Shih-p’in,which is a collection of poems attributed to the ninth-century Chinese poet/critic Ssu-k’ung T’u.

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Sundararajan, L. (1998). Reveries of Well-Being in the Shih-P’ in: From Psychology to Ontology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Enjoyment. Analecta Husserliana, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1425-9_4

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