The Oceanic Feeling [electronic resource] : The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India / by J.M Masson.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789400989696
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/8010
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1980.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1980.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XV, 213 p. online resource.
Dizi
Studies of Classical India ; 3
İçindekiler Notu
I: Introductory Essay on the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Indian Tradition -- II: The Oceanic Feeling: Origin of the Term -- III: The Oceanic Feeling: The Surrounding Imagery in the Earliest Sanskrit Texts and its Psychological Implications -- IV: The Oceanic Feeling: The Image of the Sea -- V: Monkeys, Children’s Literature and Screen-Memories: A Psychological Approach to Enchanted Forests in the R?m?ya?a -- VI: Notes on Kubj? the Hunchback and K???a, with some Observations on Perversions -- VII: Yogic Powers and Symptom-Formation -- A Personal Epilogue.
Özet, vb.
By way of a personal note, I can reveal to the reader that I was led to Sanskrit by an exposure to Indian philosophy while still a child. These early mystical interests gave way in the university to scholarly pursuits and, through reading the works of Franklin Edgerton, Louis Renou and Etienne Lamotte, I was introduced to the scientific study of the· past, to philology and the academic study of an ancient literature. In this period I wrote a number of books on Sanskrit aesthetics, concentrating on the sophisticated Indian notions of suggestion. This work has culminated in a three-volume study of the Dhvanyaloka and the Dhvanyalokalocana, for the Harvard Oriental Series. Eventually I found that I wanted to broaden my concern with India, to learn what was at the universal core of my studies and what could be of interest to everyone. In reading Indian literature, I came across so many bizarre tales and ideas that seemed incomprehensible and removed from the concerns of everyday life that I became troubled. Vedantic ideas of the world as a dream, for example, to which I had been particularly partial, seemed grandiose and megalomanic. I turned away with increasing scepticism from what I felt to be the hysterical outpourings of mystical and religious fanaticism.
Konu
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophical Traditions.