By way of a personal note, I can reveal to the reader that I was led to Sanskrit by an exposure to Indian philosophy while still a child. These early mystical interests gave way in the university to scholarly pursuits and, through reading the works of Franklin Edgerton, Louis Renou and Etienne Lamotte, I was introduced to the scientific study of the· past, to philology and the academic study of an ancient literature. In this period I wrote a number of books on Sanskrit aesthetics, concentrating on the sophisticated Indian notions of suggestion. This work has culminated in a three-volume study of the Dhvanyaloka and the Dhvanyalokalocana, for the Harvard Oriental Series. Eventually I found that I wanted to broaden my concern with India, to learn what was at the universal core of my studies and what could be of interest to everyone. In reading Indian literature, I came across so many bizarre tales and ideas that seemed incomprehensible and removed from the concerns of everyday life that I became troubled. Vedantic ideas of the world as a dream, for example, to which I had been particularly partial, seemed grandiose and megalomanic. I turned away with increasing scepticism from what I felt to be the hysterical outpourings of mystical and religious fanaticism.
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Studies of classical India, v. 3, Dordrecht, Holland, Boston, ©1980

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Feb 12, 2012

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Source title: The Oceanic Feeling: The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India (Studies of Classical India)

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introductory Essay on the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Indian Tradition....Pages 1-32
The Oceanic Feeling: Origin of the Term....Pages 33-50
The Oceanic Feeling: The Surrounding Imagery in the Earliest Sanskrit Texts and its Psychological Implications....Pages 51-67
The Oceanic Feeling: The Image of the Sea....Pages 68-79
Monkeys, Children’s Literature and Screen-Memories: A Psychological Approach to Enchanted Forests in the Rāmāyaṇa....Pages 80-109
Notes on Kubjā the Hunchback and Kṛṣṇa, with Some Observations on Perversions....Pages 110-124
Yogic Powers and Symptom Formation....Pages 125-141
A Personal Epilogue....Pages 142-142
Back Matter....Pages 143-213

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