Oneness Experience: Looking Through Multiple Lenses |
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Authors: | Sharon A. Chirban |
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Affiliation: | (1) Carlisle, MA |
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Abstract: | This article defines healthy oneness experience and establishes the progressive, life enhancing components of the experience. The author clarifies the paradox that a cohesive, well-integrated self allows unitive, non-self-definitional experiences. The author attempts to work the cultural/clinical border by exploring oneness phenomena as they occur in art, religion, literature and the clinical consulting room. The author uses psychoanalytic tools to understand non-clinical experiences of oneness. Through compelling accounts of such experiences as described by artists, writers and meditators, psychoanalytic theorizing about oneness is illumined further. |
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Keywords: | oneness, applied psychoanalysis regression symbiosis transitional space self literature literary epiphany Annie Dillard, unity spirituality psychotherapy meditation culture dual-unity energetic readiness |
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