No discussion of Osho’s psychology is complete without sex. In the PDF, you will find explicit discussions of Tantra. Osho argues that repression (the Christian/Freudian model) creates perversion. The esoteric view is that sexual energy is the raw material for spiritual energy. He provides practical psychological exercises to sublimate desire without suppressing it.
"The psychology of the esoteric is the art of using the energy that is leaking through sex, anger, and greed, and channeling it into bliss." — Osho (paraphrased from the text) the psychology of the esoteric osho pdf
Osho insists that you do not have a mind; you are a mind only by identification. The entire goal of esoteric psychology is to dis-identify. He uses the metaphor of a cinema: You are the screen, not the movie. Modern therapy helps you change the movie (from tragedy to comedy); Osho helps you realize you are the unchanging screen. No discussion of Osho’s psychology is complete without sex
To understand Osho’s psychology, you must first understand his critique of conventional psychology. "The psychology of the esoteric is the art
Western psychology, from Freud to behaviorism, operates on what Osho called "the pathology model." It studies the broken human. It asks: "What is wrong with you? How do we adjust you to society?" Osho’s response was radical and, to many academics, offensive: Adjustment to a sick society is not health; it is deeper neurosis.
In his discourses—many of which are faithfully transcribed in PDFs like The Psychology of the Esoteric—Osho argues that Freud stopped at the edge of the unconscious, peered into the abyss of repressed desires and childhood traumas, and declared that to be the basement of the human psyche. Osho insisted Freud never realized there was a second basement, and below that, a vast, luminous underground ocean.
The Esoteric Shift: Where Freud sees the Id (instincts) as a monster to be tamed, the esoteric Osho sees energy to be transformed. The PDFs circulating under this keyword often contain his commentaries on Tantra, where he famously states: "There is nothing wrong with sex; the wrong is only in the mind that represses it."