Author: Romain RollandPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Soul Enchanted: Summer, translated by E. Stimson and V. W. Brooks
Author: Romain RollandThe Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling
Author: William B. ParsonsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195354087
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, starting with the seminal correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland concerning the concept of "oceanic feeling." Providing a corrective to current views which frame psychoanalysis as pathologizing mysticism, Parsons reveals the existence of three models entertained by Freud and Rolland: the classical reductive, ego-adaptive, and transformational (which allows for a transcendent dimension to mysticism). Then, reconstructing Rolland's personal mysticism (the "oceanic feeling") through texts and letters unavailable to Freud, Parsons argues that Freud misinterpreted the oceanic feeling. In offering a fresh interpretation of Rolland's mysticism, Parsons constructs a new dialogical approach for psychoanalytic theory of mysticism which integrates culture studies, developmental perspectives, and the deep epistemological and transcendent claims of the mystics.
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Author: Romain RollandFiction Catalog
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Standard Catalog for Public Libraries
Author: H.W. Wilson CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Includes an abridged edition of 1908 catalog issued under title: English prose fiction ... list of about 800 title.
World Authors, 1900-1950
Author: Martin Seymour-SmithPublisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Representing a broad range of ethnic diversity, these in-depth profiles present fascinating accounts of lives and careers, the circumstances under which works were produced, and their literary significance. Each profile also includes critical evaluation, a list of the author's principal works with date first published, a list of major critical works, and a portrait or photograph where available.
Standard Catalog [for Public Libraries]
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Author: H.W. Wilson CompanyStandard Catalog for Public Libraries
Author: The Ingenious Mr. Pyke
Author: Henry HemmingPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395786
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare forever In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds -- to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, wrote a bestseller, and came up with the idea for the US and Canadian Special Forces. In 1942, he convinced Winston Churchill to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice. Pyke escaped from a German WWI prison camp, devised an ingenious plan to help the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and launched a private attempt to avert the outbreak of the Second World War by sending into Nazi Germany a group of pollsters disguised as golfers. And he may have been a Russian spy. In 2009, long after Pyke's death, MI5 released a mass of material suggesting that Pyke was in fact a senior official in the Soviet Comintern. In 1951, papers relating to Pyke were found in the flat of "Cambridge Spy" Guy Burgess after his defection to Moscow. MI5 had "watchers" follow Pyke through the bombed-out streets of London, his letters were opened, and listening devices picked up clues to his real identity. Convinced he was a Soviet agent codenamed Professor P, MI5 helped to bring his career to an end. Henry Hemming is the first reporter to sift through this extraordinary new information and finally tell Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets.