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Title: One Encounter One Chance: The Essence of the Art of Karate by Terrence Webster-Doyle ISBN: 0-8348-0477-8 Publisher: Weatherhill Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Karate as a Therapy
Comment: Those who want to learn how to defeat the most powerful enemy must learn this book. That enemy is the one we construct inside us, that enemy is the enemy within our head, inside our spirits. I know is not a question of win or loose, of defeating or be defeated, but the author must know, if he reads this review, that he is constructing an idea about karate, a discourse of what it is, or supposse to be, so, he , by writing it enter in the same conflict. Can we escape from that? I think not. But we can manage the conflict of ideas in many ways, and one excellent theory is given by Dr. Webster-Doyle.
I think in a more sicoanalistic way. I believe that the fragmentation of the sychic structure is real and not a mere ideal rupture of the self. But, from a sychoanalitical point of view, been "empty" is to recognice the Void. This is a conversation I wish to have with Dr. Webster-Doyle.
But in terms of the book, if you only want the superficial aproach of martial arts, that of just punching and kicking, grapling and striking, well, don't read this book, but if you are serius in understanding combat, conflict and the agressiveness of humans, I dare you to read this pages. And I am convinced that if you don't like the book because it tries to end conflict, may be you need a sychologist 'cause you are so violent that you cannot deal with peace.
Any one who read about Gichin Funakoshi will notice that karate is a discourse of understanding the violent capacity of humans, and by that, by knowing combat, we can develope peace. I think that is the intention of the author of One Encounter, One Chance.
The concept of using karate to develope a Therapy against violence is excellent. Karate can become a language, just as Jackes Lacan says about langauge and the structure of the human sychis, and by that, by the sign and codes of the Kata, of the form, the subject can take out agression and deal with it in the insatisfaction of the desire of death. The author sees it in terms of a centered self, an individual who is not fragmented, but in terms of a conflict structure, as the sychoanalisys says, the therapy have good potential.
As you can see, I do not agree with the theory of the self as Dr. Webster-Doyle expose it, but in terms of the potential of karate as an analysis technique, this book had openned a wonderful door for discussion and debate, and a dialogue torward peace.
One more thin, contrary to Dr. Webster-Doyle, I think that Musachi Miyamoto's Book of Five Rings, especially the book of the Void, deals with the Sychic Void that every human have. Deny the Void, even from the point of view of Musachi miyamoto, is deny the human being itself.