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A critic of psychoanalysis's superficial conception of mind. Suggested that the discipline had to correct and deepen their conception by taking into account mystical experiences, both East and West. <ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93.</ref>
* A critic of psychoanalysis's superficial conception of mind. Suggested that the discipline had to correct and deepen their conception by taking into account mystical experiences, both East and West. <ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93.</ref>
 
* Call for a new "science of mind" root in ancient Indian spiritual systems (yoga). Such a science would incorporate the valuable aspect of modern psychology (psychoanalysis) without succumbing to reductionist frameworks. <ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93.</ref>
Call for a new "science of mind" root in ancient Indian spiritual systems (yoga). Such a science would incorporate the valuable aspect of modern psychology (psychoanalysis) without succumbing to reductionist frameworks. <ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93.</ref>
* "According to Rolland, psychoanalysts have tended to ‘depreciate’ the mystical experiences of saints because the psychoanalysts themselves lack the ‘inner sense’ necessary to have mystical experiences in the first place." <ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93. p. 478,</ref>
 
* "At various points in the Appendix, Rolland makes the provocative suggestion that the psychoanalytic denigration of mystical experience stems from an abnormally extroverted tendency among psychoanalysts themselves."<ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93. p. 478,</ref>
"According to Rolland, psychoanalysts have tended to ‘depreciate’ the mystical experiences of saints because the psychoanalysts themselves lack the ‘inner sense’ necessary to have mystical experiences in the first place." <ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93. p. 478,</ref>
* Rolland accuses psychoanalysis of having unconscious 'prejudice' that prevents them from seen the truths of mystical experience.
 
* Defends the notion of mystical experience against charges that it is an infantile, regressive state.
* Accuses Freud's rejection of oceanic experiences and religion as shallow and normative
* Felt a Yogic "science of mind was superior to Freud's psychoanalytic science
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Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic. For more, see the Wikipedia entry.

Notes

  • A critic of psychoanalysis's superficial conception of mind. Suggested that the discipline had to correct and deepen their conception by taking into account mystical experiences, both East and West. [1]
  • Call for a new "science of mind" root in ancient Indian spiritual systems (yoga). Such a science would incorporate the valuable aspect of modern psychology (psychoanalysis) without succumbing to reductionist frameworks. [2]
  • "According to Rolland, psychoanalysts have tended to ‘depreciate’ the mystical experiences of saints because the psychoanalysts themselves lack the ‘inner sense’ necessary to have mystical experiences in the first place." [3]
  • "At various points in the Appendix, Rolland makes the provocative suggestion that the psychoanalytic denigration of mystical experience stems from an abnormally extroverted tendency among psychoanalysts themselves."[4]
  • Rolland accuses psychoanalysis of having unconscious 'prejudice' that prevents them from seen the truths of mystical experience.
  • Defends the notion of mystical experience against charges that it is an infantile, regressive state.
  • Accuses Freud's rejection of oceanic experiences and religion as shallow and normative
  • Felt a Yogic "science of mind was superior to Freud's psychoanalytic science

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93.
  2. ↑ Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93.
  3. ↑ Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93. p. 478,
  4. ↑ Maharaj, Ayon. “The Challenge of the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Mystical Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a ‘New Science of the Mind’.” History of European Ideas 43, no. 5 (July 2017): 474–93. p. 478,
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