"Self Is Not the Endpoint": Structural Convergence Across Three Religious Traditions and Three Psychoanalytic Frameworks / "自我不是终点":三个宗教传统与三个精神分析框架的结构性汇聚
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 7, 2026 Qin Han
Six intellectual traditions—Buddhism, philosophical Daoism (Zhuangzi), Christianity (Pauline epistles and mystical tradition), Freud's structural psychoanalysis, Jung's analytical psychology, and SAE psychoanalysis—independently converge on a structurally similar judgment: the self (the reflexive, boundary-maintaining layer that discriminates 'mine' from 'not mine') is not the highest or final layer of personhood. This paper presents the convergence, analyzes its 3×3 network structure (three religious traditions × three psychoanalytic frameworks), and argues that the convergence constitutes evidence worth taking seriously, while distinguishing this claim from perennial philosophy, ontological identity claims, and reductionism. SAE psychoanalysis provides a coordinate system explaining why this convergence occurs: the self-as-filter has a logically necessary jurisdictional limit, and any sufficiently deep inquiry into personhood will encounter it.