The Mystic that Challenged Freud

Seekers of Unity

Who was Freud's Secret Mystic Friend? Exploring Freud's relationship with a mystic and the chapter in Freud's best-selling Civilization and Its Discontents, in which he attempts to answer this mysterious mystic.

Part 1: The Most Dangerous Mind of the 20th Century https://youtu.be/4sge_4KfCrM

Part 2: The Mystic that Challenged Freud https://youtu.be/NSNVB-iYNyY

Part 3: FREUD, Sex & Science vs JUNG, Religion & Occultism https://youtu.be/m2t0Yi2OJvE

In collaboration with Dr. Justin Sledge @TheEsotericaChannel Watch his episode here: https://youtu.be/zuHwws5aXBE

Check out our convo with Justin: Is Mysticism Rational? LOGIC and MYSTICISM with Esoterica's Justin Sledge

https://youtu.be/CaLDtvUJI_A

00:00 Freud and the Mystic

01:20 Freud and Rolland, fanboying

04:56 Freud and Rolland, the beef

13:20 Civilization and Its Discontents

20:51 Psychoanalytic Explanation

31:25 Objections to Unity

32:34 Longing for Oneness

36:42 Science/Sex vs Mysticism/Religion

Sources and Further Readings:

• Ayon Maharaj, “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling,’” in History of European Ideas, 2017

• Charles P. Heriot-Maitland, Mysticism and Madness: Different aspects of the same human experience?, 2008, 11(3), 303

• Christine Downing, “Sigmund Freud and Jewish Mysticism: An Exploration,” In Cattoi, Thomas; Odorisio, David M. (2018). Depth Psychology and Mysticism, p. 151-166

• Dufresne, Todd (2017). “Mysticism, War, Love, and Religion: Civilization and Its Discontents, Reality, and Romain Rolland,” in The Late Sigmund Freud

• Letters of Sigmund Freud, edited by Ernst Freud, London: Hogarth Press, 1970

• Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930

• Vermorel & Vermorel, Sigmund Freud et Romain Rolland, 1993

• William Parsons, The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling 1999

• William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, 357-60

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