Explorations of the psychoanalytic mystics / / Dan Merkur.

• Superior document: Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 11
• Author: Merkur, Daniel.
• TeilnehmendeR: Merkur, Daniel.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 395 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Little discussed by psychoanalysts and almost unknown outside the profession, a small but distinguished group of psychoanalysts were or are mystics: Otto Rank, Erich Fromm, Marion Milner, D. W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Hans W. Loewald, Wilfred R. Bion, James S. Grotstein, Neville Symington, and Michael Eigen. All favoured an extrovertive mysticism that perceives unity throughout physical reality. Several saw creativity as an application of mystical consciousness to the physical material of artwork, artefact, or, more generally, culture.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Oceanic Feeling -- The Psyche’s Unitive Trends -- Otto Rank’s Will Therapy -- Erich Fromm’s Humanistic Psychoanalysis -- The Mystical in Art and Culture / Milner , Winnicott and Ehrenzweig -- D. W. Winnicott’s Analysis of the Self -- The Cosmic Narcissism of Heinz Kohut -- Hans W. Loewald and Psychic Integration -- Wilfred R. Bion’s Transformations of O -- James Grotstein and the Transcendent Position -- The Personal Monism of Neville Symington -- The Ecstasies of Michael Eigen -- Afterthoughts -- References -- Index.