On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 02:29:28 -0500 Robert White wrote:
I was reading Fromm's _Zen & Psychoanalysis_ and came across
>the following tid bit that readers might find interesting.
>
>"Sakki literally means "air of murder." .........>>>and so on
 [p.23 Fromm, E. 1960 _Zen Buddhism & Psychoanalysis_
> Grove Press New York]
>
>;-)
 
 Dear Robert,
 
 I would like to remember that the in first part of the book there are five
conferences on Zen Buddhism by D.T.Suzuki and the one you quote is
"Unconscious in Zen Buddhism" which was as the other four,  literally copied
in the direct speach by Erich Fromm.
 
 The second part was written by Fromm and the third by Richard De Martino.
 Please correct me if I may be wrong.
 
 It is one of the BLB ( Best Little Books ) on the matter, although I think
that the first part is the most valuable for our work.
 
 Reading your message I immediatly remembered the song " Love is in the Air
", so why not " Death is in the Air ", or the air of Love and the air of Death.
 
 I have to point out that it is very different from hate in the Pre-Socratic
thinking, what takes us directly to the notion of an Unconscient"air"( agent
of human nature ) that comes free from everything more than only Death.
 
 I do not agree with the air of "murder" because the aim of the artist is
not the act, but the nature of it.
 
 Of course I am talking about the Freudian Duality.
 Best regards, Osmar.