The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling

Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

Av William B. Parsons, Rice University) Parsons, William B. (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Jr. Parsons, William B., William B. Jr. Parsons

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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'. Parsons argues that the history of psychology has misunderstood Freud's own views, and as a consequence has over-reduced mysticism to psychological regression or pathology.