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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Parsons, William Barclay, 1955-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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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.