J. M Masson

The Oceanic Feeling (eBook, PDF)

The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India

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Produktbeschreibung

By way of a personal note, I can reveal to the reader that I was led to Sanskrit by an exposure to Indian philosophy while still a child. These early mystical interests gave way in the university to scholarly pursuits and, through reading the works of Franklin Edgerton, Louis Renou and Etienne Lamotte, I was introduced to the scientific study of the· past, to philology and the academic study of an ancient literature. In this period I wrote a number of books on Sanskrit aesthetics, concentrating on the sophisticated Indian notions of suggestion. This work has culminated in a three-volume study of the Dhvanyaloka and the Dhvanyalokalocana, for the Harvard Oriental Series. Eventually I found that I wanted to broaden my concern with India, to learn what was at the universal core of my studies and what could be of interest to everyone. In reading Indian literature, I came across so many bizarre tales and ideas that seemed incomprehensible and removed from the concerns of everyday life that I became troubled. Vedantic ideas of the world as a dream, for example, to which I had been particularly partial, seemed grandiose and megalomanic. I turned away with increasing scepticism from what I felt to be the hysterical outpourings of mystical and religious fanaticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 213
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789400989696
• Artikelnr.: 43985140

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introductory Essay on the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Indian Tradition.- II: The Oceanic Feeling: Origin of the Term.- III: The Oceanic Feeling: The Surrounding Imagery in the Earliest Sanskrit Texts and its Psychological Implications.- IV: The Oceanic Feeling: The Image of the Sea.- V: Monkeys, Children's Literature and Screen-Memories: A Psychological Approach to Enchanted Forests in the R?m?ya?a.- VI: Notes on Kubj? the Hunchback and K???a, with some Observations on Perversions.- VII: Yogic Powers and Symptom-Formation.- A Personal Epilogue.