The Soul Enchanted: Summer, translated by E. Stimson and V. W. Brooks
Author : Romain Rolland
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Romain Rolland
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : William B. Parsons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195354087
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.
Author : Romain Rolland
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 1927
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Best books
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Author : H.W. Wilson Company
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Best books
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Includes an abridged edition of 1908 catalog issued under title: English prose fiction ... list of about 800 title.
Author : British Library
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
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Author : Martin Seymour-Smith
Publisher : New York : H.W. Wilson
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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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.
Author : H.W. Wilson Company
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 1928
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : Henry Hemming
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1610395786
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.