Das Unbewusste, Selbsterfahrung und mystische Erfahrung
Karl Heinz Witte
Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie July 1, 2011 DOI: 10.13109/zind.2011.36.3.204 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that self-awareness reveals every organizing function of the ego is preceded by passivity and receptivity, and that this receptive mode is generally discarded in public opinion, psychology, psychoanalysis, and theology. Proposes that psychoanalysis accesses this mode through the effects of the unconscious and that mystic experience shares a similar structure, explored through Michel Henry's Phenomenology of Life and the theories of Freud, Bion, and Meister Eckhart. |
Abstract
The Unconscious, Self-awareness, and Mystic Experience Self-awareness reveals that every organising function of the ego is preceded by a state of passivity and receptivity. But this state of mind is generally discarded in public opinion, also in psychology and psychoanalysis, and even in theology. Psychoanalysts study this mode of awareness through the effects of the unconscious. The phenomenon of mystic experience is structured in a similar way. This paper will discuss these structural similarities, looking at M. Henry´s Phenomenology of Life and the theories of Freud, Bion, and Meister Eckhart.