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Published in Rubin Battino, Using Guided Imagery and Hypnosis in Brief Therapy and Palliative Care, 2020
Another, related to Sigmund Freud is,In a 1927 letter to Sigmund Freud, Romain Rolland coined the phrase “oceanic feeling” to refer to the sensation of being one with the universe. According to Rolland, this feeling is the source of all the religious energy that permeates in various religious systems, and one may justifiably call oneself religious on the basis of this oceanic feeling alone, even if one renounces every belief and every illusion.
The Future of Narcotic Addiction
Published in Albert A. Kurland, S. Joseph Mulé, Psychiatric Aspects of Opiate Dependence, 2019
Albert A. Kurland, S. Joseph Mulé
The self-actualizing person is one who is at peace, contented, calm, utilizing his capacities completely, creative, successful in his interpersonal relationships, well-adjusted, who generally has a need for a certain degree of privacy. The self-actualizing person has nothing to gain by baring his soul – that is, he has no neurotic needs that would be satisfied by disclosing private matters. Based upon these traits, Maslow’s impression was that any naturalistic definition of a mystic would be close to a definition of a self-actualized person. Also, while these people (or most of them) have many so-called mystic experiences, they never call them that. Maslow wrote: “Because this experience is a natural experience, well within the jurisdiction of science, it is probably better to use Freud’s term…oceanic feeling.”
Suffering and choice
Published in Peter Wemyss-Gorman, John D Loeser, Pain, Suffering and Healing, 2018
Suffering is a cognitively richer state than pain. We do not need to know much to be hurt by a flame. In this respect suffering is more like an emotion than a sensation. To love or hate someone, we have to know, or think we know, something about them. However, there is an important difference between emotions and suffering. Most emotions have objects. Fear and love are directed at the feared or loved person or thing. We hate or fear something or somebody. But there is no object of suffering. There are special cases of emotion that are also objectless – nameless dread, generalised anxiety or, to give a positive example, the oceanic feeling that we may feel listening to music. In these cases we ourselves play the role of an object. These states of mind are self-orientated; they have a reflexive structure.
Islands of Encounter: A Reflection on the Place of Psychoanalysis
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2018
In tropical ecologies swamps pull the body in. Allewaert terms the human imbrication with tropical environments a parahumanity, that is, a different notion of the human in a more intimate relation with the natural that necessarily prevails in tropical island landscapes. In terms of placing affect, humans have a complex relation to this archipelagic tension as we negotiate how to stay afloat between these two poles. How to not get taken over, on the one hand, by an oceanic feeling of oneness with the totality of the natural world as captured often in metaphors of the sea, while also not resorting to simply rising out of the water to settle permanently on land, resolving the tension in the idealization of human sovereignty.