The Paranormal Surrounds Us

Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture and Psychoanalysis

Richard Reichbart (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9536-8 (ISBN)

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Enjoins us to recognize psi phenomena such as telepathy, precognition and apparitions in our lives and to integrate our understanding of them into psychoanalytic theory and clinical work, literary studies, and anthropology. He investigates psi as it expresses itself in dreams, unconscious dynamics, psychic photography, and precognition and provides instances from his clinical practice.

Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, E.M. Forster and Ingmar Bergman all made the paranormal essential to their depiction of humanity. Freud recognized telepathy as an everyday phenomenon. Observations on parapsychological aspects of psychoanalysis also include the findings of the Mesmerists, Jung, Ferenczi and Eisenbud.

Many academicians attribute such psychic discoveries to "poetic license" rather than to accurate understanding of our parapsychological capacities. The author--a practicing psychoanalyst and parapsychologist, and a lawyer familiar with Navajo culture--argues for a fresh appraisal of psi phenomena and their integration into psychoanalytic theory and clinical work, literary studies and anthropology.

Richard Reichbart is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Positions held include past president of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City; past president of the New Jersey Society for Psychoanalysis; fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association; member of the American Psychoanalytic Association; and member of the Parapsychological Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Mikita Brottman

Introduction

I. Psi Phenomena in Western Literature

One • Hamlet: The Tragedy of a Parapsychologist

Two • Psi Phenomena and Tolstoy

Three • E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India: Psi, Culture and Causality

Four • G.K. Chesterton and Ingmar Bergman: Artists of Magic and Psi Whose Intimations Proved Too Real

Five • Telepathy and Psychic Connections in James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Window into the Psychoanalyst’s World

II. Psi Phenomena and Psychoanalysis

Six • Psi and Psychoanalysis I: Rescuing Sisyphus

Seven • Psi and Psychoanalysis II: Rescuing Sisyphus Today

III. Psi Phenomena and Culture

Eight • The Navajo Hand Trembler: Multiple Roles of the Psychic in Traditional Navajo Society

Nine • Magic and Psi: Some Speculations on Their Relationship

Ten • Western Law and Parapsychology

Conclusion

Afterword by Michael Prescott

Appendix A: Jule Eisenbud: Explorer

Appendix B: Correspondence with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer

Appendix C: A Cloak and Dagger Psi Mystery Story

Glossary

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Östliche Weisheit / Alte Kulturen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7864-9536-7 / 0786495367
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-9536-8 / 9780786495368
Zustand	Neuware