The Return of the Repressed?: Psychoanalysis as Spirituality
Recent years have witnessed an increasing embrace offorms ofreligion and spirituality within the field of psychoanalysis. This article examines the emergence of the phenomena of "psychoanalysis as spirituality," namely the radical claims, advanced by a number of influential contemporary an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2012]
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| In: |
Implicit religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 209-224 |
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Spirituality
B Esotericism B PSYCHOLOGY & religion B Consciousness B Mysticism B Psychoanalysis B psychospirituality B Implicit Religion |
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| Summary: | Recent years have witnessed an increasing embrace offorms ofreligion and spirituality within the field of psychoanalysis. This article examines the emergence of the phenomena of "psychoanalysis as spirituality," namely the radical claims, advanced by a number of influential contemporary analysts, that the unconscious has an inherently mystical dimension and that psychoanalysis can function as a modern secular spiritual pra ctice. It creatively adopts Freud's concept ofthe "return ofthe repressed, "the return ofdesires that, being socially unacceptable, have been excludedfrom consciousness, to suggest that the current confla- tion of psychoanalysis and spirituality signifies a recovery of the hidden historic religious and esoteric origins of psychoanalysis. It concludes that the wider post-modern shift within psychoanalysis has undermined oppositions between the scientific and the religious, the objective and subjective, the ego and id, and created a contemporary context in which these repressed esoteric roots can manifest in culturally acceptable ways. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.v15.i2.11197 |