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The Oceanic Feeling

The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India

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  1. J. Moussaieff Masson
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Part of the book series: Studies of Classical India (STCI, volume 3)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introductory Essay on the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Indian Tradition

    • J. Moussaieff Masson
    Pages 1-32

  3. The Oceanic Feeling: Origin of the Term

    • J. Moussaieff Masson
    Pages 33-50

  4. The Oceanic Feeling: The Surrounding Imagery in the Earliest Sanskrit Texts and its Psychological Implications

    • J. Moussaieff Masson
    Pages 51-67

  5. The Oceanic Feeling: The Image of the Sea

    • J. Moussaieff Masson
    Pages 68-79

  6. Monkeys, Children’s Literature and Screen-Memories: A Psychological Approach to Enchanted Forests in the Rāmāyaṇa

    • J. Moussaieff Masson
    Pages 80-109

  7. Notes on Kubjā the Hunchback and Kṛṣṇa, with Some Observations on Perversions

    • J. Moussaieff Masson
    Pages 110-124

  8. Yogic Powers and Symptom Formation

    • J. Moussaieff Masson
    Pages 125-141

  9. A Personal Epilogue

    • J. Moussaieff Masson
    Pages 142-142

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 143-213
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Oceanic Feeling

  • Book Subtitle: The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India

  • Authors: J. Moussaieff Masson

  • Series Title: Studies of Classical India

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8969-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1050-5Published: 30 June 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-8971-9Published: 12 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8969-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 213

  • Topics: Non-Western Philosophy

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