Description: Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling : Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism, Hardcover by Parsons, William Barclay, ISBN 0195115082, ISBN-13 9780195115086, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling : Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Th
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling : Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, General
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: William B. Parsons
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Religion, Psychology
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
