Orientations 210 A Methodological Approach 210 Knowledge and Contingency 212 Some Epistemological Considerations 212 Buddhism: Commonalities and Contrasts in Theories of Self, or When Is an Ethnopsychology Not an Ethonopsychology? 214 Situating the Analysis 215 Buddhism and Individuals 216 Relational Psychoanalysis 220 Winnicoff, Buddhism, and the Nature of Relationship 221 Holding, Integration, and Wholeness 221 The Relational Orientation 222 The Danger of Fragmentation 224 Malevolence and the Permeable Self 225 Conscious Representations and Implicit Models 226 Provisional Selves and Illusory Identities 226 The Shaping of Experience 227 Holding Infants 228 Disjunctions 228 Interdependence Embodied 229 Death, Disintegration, and Holding 230 Conclusion 233 Notes 234 References Cited 240
