The enigma of the oceanic feeling :: revisioning the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism /

This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, starting with the seminal correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland concerning the concept of "oceanic feeling." Providing a corrective to current views which frame psychoanalysis as pathologizing mysticism, P...

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1. Verfasser: Parsons, William Barclay, 1955-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Zusammenfassung:This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, starting with the seminal correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland concerning the concept of "oceanic feeling." Providing a corrective to current views which frame psychoanalysis as pathologizing mysticism, Parsons reveals the existence of three models entertained by Freud and Rolland: the classical reductive, ego-adaptive, and transformational (which allows for a transcendent dimension to mysticism). Then, reconstructing Rolland's personal mysticism (the "oceanic feeling") through texts and leaf
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 252 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
ISBN:9780195354089
0195354087

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