3 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 1996-2017
May 12, 2017 Dan Merkur, Jon Mills
C. G. Jung pioneered the integration of psychoanalysis with spirituality, and the current Zeitgeist has much to learn from both his successes and his failures. In his view, the general field of normal psychology included ethics, aesthetics and, of keenest interest to himself, spirituality. Jung frequently remarked that Freud focused psychoanalysis exclusively on medical concerns, which is to...
Social Analysis 2006 Dan Merkur 6 citations
Drawing on phenomenology and his clinical practice, the author explores religious experience and the dynamics of the numinous. The article opens with the argument that psychoanalysts, like religious healers, should be able to work with religious phenomena as part of psychoanalytic therapy. The origin of the term 'numinous' is explained, and two types of human religious experience, mysterium...
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 1996 Dan Merkur 1 citation
Abstract For the Scandinavian tradition of the history of religions, in which I was trained, not the numinous, but the experience of the numinous is the sui generis subject matter of the discipline; and historians routinely emphasize the experiential aspects of religions. The better to understand religious experience, I work interdisciplinarily with psychoanalysis. Freud's treatment of group...