“There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake.” (p. 289) A Buddhist Analysis of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2018 novel—My Year of Rest and Relaxation—is written as a retrospective, reflection of the narrator’s former self. The characters and details of the story are a critique of Western psychology—including psychiatry—and American culture. Buddhist philosophy is applied to analyze the narrator’s mission as well as deconstruct Western psychology and the concept of self. CHOOSING NON-REALITY The Buddha’s Eightfold Path is…