6 papers in the library · publishing 2018
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
Both Sri Aurobindo and C. G. Jung express a process for the fulfilment of a life that requires the development of consciousness and thus offers a reason for giving importance to a mystical experience. Sri Aurobindo Ghose is rare in the array of Eastern mystical figures because he was also an intellectual and a political revolutionary. Reducing Sri Aurobindo and C. G. Jung to a causal connection...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
The father archetype that underlies a father complex is the primum movens of religious feeling: it is the "creative wind-breath – the spirit, pneuma, atman" and thus contains the seeds of all mystical experiences (ME). Although the father archetype is an underlying ground for a ME, it cleaves towards the authority of established religion so that the nascent religious feelings it engenders are...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
Receptivity to a mystical experience (ME) is not characterised for any person by a wide-open highway where there are no obstacles. The nature of a ME and Jung&s;s numinous experience in terms of its psychoanalytic significance is that it essentially creates something new that has a particular form. The potential for rejection is contained within the overwhelming experience; a ME always has an...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
An experience will be made legitimate when it is accepted by the patient and the analyst as a truly mysterious phenomenon that has occurred. The importance of Jung&s;s formulation to ascribe legitimacy to a numinous experience is to be understood in the relationship of that experience to ego consciousness. There is philosophical debate as to whether a mystical experience is a pure subjective...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
The emphasis in ego-psychology on a mystical experience (ME) is for the ego consciousness to enter into a relationship with a new element that has been introduced into the psyche by the experience. For Jung, a ME is subsumed in a larger category of what he calls "numinous experience." The teleology of a numinous experience is that it introduces to the conscious mind the existence of a non-ego...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
Longing, in its widest sense, impels the receptivity; it is not a characteristic of either a strong or a weak ego. The longing is insufficient, in itself, to account for receptivity, but it is its basis, contained within a coherent ego that is able to absorb a mystical experience (ME). The search for any development factors that may create a proclivity for receptivity to a ME must be general...