TANTRA MANUAL – EMOTIONAL REPROGRAMMING: FROM TANTRA TO THE TECHNOLOGY OF DESIRE® (excerpt)

Abstract

Manual of Tantra. From Tantra to the Technology of Desire® is a distinctive contribution to contemporary studies of desire, subjectivity, and tantric practices. The book articulates experiential knowledge with conceptual tools drawn from discourse analysis, psychology, symbolic anthropology, and classical tantric traditions. Rather than presenting tantra as a purely spiritual or ritual system, the author advances a critical framework in which desire is understood as a dynamic, relational, and structurally unfulfilled process. This structural impossibility of fulfillment is presented not as a limitation, but as the driving force behind creativity, learning, and subjective transformation.
Structured as a training manual, the work is grounded in more than two decades of teaching experience in both face-to-face and distance-learning contexts. Its pedagogical style combines conceptual rigor, autobiographical narratives, and practical exercises, enabling readers not only to study desire as an object of analysis but also to experience it as a technology that can be observed, trained, and re-signified.
Positioned within a non-dogmatic and non-confessional framework, the book engages in critical dialogue with religious, psychological, and contemporary cultural discourses. It proposes an ethics of desire based on subjective responsibility and the recognition of the other as a constitutive dimension of desire itself. As such, the manual represents a relevant contribution for scholars researching desire and subjectivity, as well as for professionals in education, psychotherapy, and embodied or contemplative practices.