The Analyst and the Mystic
Subtitle: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Religion and Mysticism
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9780226422831
Subjects: Comparative religion; Religion: general; Psychology Of Religion; Religion; Psychology; General; Mysticism; Freud, Sigmund; Ramakrishna; Religion / Mysticism; Hinduism; Psychoanalysis and religion; Ramakrishna,
First sentence: Of the many ways of inner transformation known to man, the mystical path is perhaps one of the most ancient, universal, and highly regarded, even when its practitioners have often lived in an uneasy truce, if not in frank antagonism, with the established religions of their societies.