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Oxford University Press Inc The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism by William B Parsons
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.show more