{"product_id":"enigma-of-the-oceanic-feeling-the","title":"Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling, The","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\n\u003cbr\u003edimension 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.\n\u003cbr\u003eIn 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":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156743450862,"sku":"9780195115086","price":348.33,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/enigma-of-the-oceanic-feeling-the","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}