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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Across all boundaries : the atheistic Jew and the apostle of love
- 2. The enigma of the oceanic feeling
- 3. Rolland and the emerging psychology and religion movement
- 4. The debate continued
- 5. A congregation of one
- 6. Mysticism east and west
- 7. The oceanic feeling interpreted
- Appendix : the letters of Sigmund Freud and Romain Rolland.