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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." 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 letters unavailable to Freud, Parsons argues that Freud misinterpreted the oceanic feeling. In offering a fresh interpretation of Rolland's mysticism, Parsons constructs a new dialogical approach for psychoanalytic theory of mysticism which integrates culture studies, developmental perspectives, and the deep epistemological and transcendent claims of the mystics.

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  • Title The Enigma of Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism
  • Author William B. Parsons
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-06-17
  • ISBN 9780195115086 / 0195115082
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.51 x 6.43 x 1.06 in (24.16 x 16.33 x 2.69 cm)
  • Reading level 1610
  • Category Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality
  • Library of Congress subjects Freud, Sigmund, Psychoanalysis and religion
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-18199
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291.422

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