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Note: References to Beckett's texts in French are listed after the English titles. Page numbers refer either to the text or the footnote(s) or both on the given pages.

Abbott, H. Porter, , , , , – , – Ackerley, Chris, , ,  ‘Clare Street’ notebook,  Adelman, Gary,  , , –, ,  Adorno, Theodor, –, , , ,  ‘Da tagte es’,  Advaita Vedānta, ,  ‘Dante...Bruno. Vico.. Joyce’, ,  affinity. See family resemblances ‘Dream’ notebook, –, –,  Amiran, Eyol,  Dream of Fair to Middling Women, , –, anātman. See no-self, the , , –, , , , , , Anzieu, Didier,   apophasis, apophatic. See via negativa, the ‘Echo’s Bones’, –,  aporia, aporetic, , , , , see also logic, ,  paradoxical: doubling, paradoxical/aporetic ‘End, The’ / ‘La Fin’, –, – App, Urs, archival research of, – / Fin de partie, –, ,  Aristotle, , ,  ‘Expelled, The’ / ‘L’Expulsé’,  ātman (individual self in the Upanishads), –, Film, , , – ,  ‘’ / ‘Premier amour’, , ,  ā ‘ ’ ‘ ’  awakening. See nirv na_ Fizzle / Foirade , Footfalls, ,  Bachelard, Gaston, , , – ‘German Diaries’,  Badiou, Alain, ,  Ghost Trio, ,  Baker, Phil, ,  ‘go where never before’ / ‘Là’, , ,  Bakhtin, Mikhail, ,  / Oh les beaux jours, – Baldwin, Hélène L.,  ‘Henri Hayden, homme-peintre’, –,  Bankei Yōtaku, –,  / Comment c’est, , –, –, Barthes, Roland, –, – , – Bataille, Georges, ,  / Mal vu mal dit, , , Beauvoir, Simone de, , ,  , –,  Beckett, Samuel – Works Krapp’s Last Tape, , , – / Acte sans paroles I, –, / Sans,  –,  Letter to Axel Kaun of , , – Act without Words II / Acte sans paroles II,  Lost Ones, The / Le Dépeupleur, –,  ‘’, ,  ‘Malacoda’,  ,  / Malone meurt, , , , ‘Brief Dream’,  –, , , , ,  ...but the clouds...,  , , , , –, , –,  ‘Calmative, The’ / ‘Le Calmant’, , , , , ,  , –,  ‘Mort de A. D.’, – ‘Calvary by Night’, ,  , , –, , 

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Buning, Marius,  dissociation. See also under Beckett, Samuel – Butler, Lance St. John,  Writing cognitive science and, – Calder, John,  in Buddhism,  calm. See quietude vs. schizophrenia and schizoid voice, – Campbell, Julie, ,  doppelgänger. See double, imaginary Caselli, Daniela,  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, , ,  Christ’s Passion, iconography of, , , –, double, imaginary, –, –, , , – , , , –, – Coe, Richard N., , , –,  inner voice and, ,  cognition, distributed, – vs. schizoid voice, – Cohn, Ruby, , –, , , ,  dream noh, , ,  Connor, Steven, –,  Beckett and, –, , , –, , contemplation, aesthetic. See also under  Schopenhauer, Arthur modernist adaptions of,  Beckett and,  W. B. Yeats and,  ā   – nirv na_ , parallels with, Duthuit, Georges, , contemplation, inner. See also under Zen Buddhism Eckhart, Meister, , , ,  Beckett and, , , , –, , ,  Beckett and, –, –, , – Buddhism and, , , , ,  generativity of the void and, – Quietism (Christian) and,  paradox and, – Conze, Edward, , , , , , , , parallels with the Buddha and Schopenhauer, – –, ,  Cousineau, Thomas,  silence, unknowing, and negative theology, craving. See desire – Critchley, Simon, ,  use of the vernacular and,  Cross, Stephen, –,  Eliot, T. S., ,  emptiness, , , , see also desert, trope of; Dante Alighieri, , , , –, , , void, the –,  in Beckett, , , , , –, –, Dārā Shikūh, Prince, – –, , , –, –, , Darley, Arthur, –  Dauer, Dorothea, ,  in Buddhism, , , –, , –, , Davies, Paul, –, , , , , ,   vs. Upanishadic and mystic plenitude, , De Vos, Laurens,  –,  ā death and birth. See birth and death, union of enlightenment, Buddhist. See nirv na_ Deleuze, Gilles, , , , , ,  ensō (Zen circles). See under Zen Buddhism Democritus, , ,  Esslin, Martin, ,  Dennett, Daniel C.,  ethics. See also Beckett, Samuel – Writing: ethics Dennis, Amanda, ,  of; Mahāyāna Buddhism: ethics and; Derrida, Jacques, –, , ,  Schopenhauer, Arthur: ethics of compassion Descartes, René, Cartesian, , , ,  and desert, trope of,  Beckett and, –, , , ,  figure of emptiness, , , ,  laughter and,  sublimeness and,  desire, ,  family resemblances (Wittgenstein),  cause of suffering, , , ,  Feldman, Matthew, ,  emancipation from, , , , , , , Feldman, Morton,  – Flasch, Kurt,  detachment. See renunciation Foster, Paul, – Deussen, Paul, – Foucault, Michel,  Dionysius, the Areopagite, , ,  Freud, Sigmund, , –, –, 

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Weber-Caflisch, Antoinette,  psycho-objects/spaces for, –, , , , Weller, Shane, , , ,  ,  will to life (Schopenhauer), denial of, – simulacra and, , –, ,  in Beckett, , , , , ,  Worth, Katharine,  ā    –  –   parallels with nirv na_ , , , , , Wynands, Sandra, , , Williams, Paul, , – Wimbush, Andy, , , , , , , , Yeats, William Butler, –,  ,  Yogācāra Buddhism, ,  Windelband, Wilhelm, , ,  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, ,  Zen Buddhism, –, , , , –, Wolosky, Shira,   womb metaphor, transgendered ensō (Zen circles),  male creativity and, – koans, ,  wombtomb and, – mushin (no-mind), state of, ,  wombtomb (figural mindscape), , , see also wall gazing, – Beckett, Samuel – Writing: space of writing Zen meditation and Beckett, , , , creativity and, , , , –, –,  –, , – prebirth and postmortem state, union of, , Zilliacus, Clas,  , , ,  Zimmer, Heinrich, , , 

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