The enigma of the oceanic feeling : revisioning the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism / William B. Parsons.
1999
BF175.4.R44 P37 1999eb
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Title
The enigma of the oceanic feeling : revisioning the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism / William B. Parsons.
ISBN
9780195354089 (electronic bk.)
0195354087 (electronic bk.)
0195115082 (Cloth)
9780195115086
0195354087 (electronic bk.)
0195115082 (Cloth)
9780195115086
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 252 pages)
Call Number
BF175.4.R44 P37 1999eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)433060731
Summary
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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Parsons, William Barclay, 1955- Enigma of the oceanic feeling. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
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