{"product_id":"the-enigma-of-the-oceanic-feeling","title":"The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William B. Parsons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43577501646909,"sku":"9780195115086","price":428.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-enigma-of-the-oceanic-feeling","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}