The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling

The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780195354089
ISBN-13 : 0195354087
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Download or read book The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling written by William B. Parsons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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