Studies in Parapsychology

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"I am not^.going to take up the position that I am nothing but a psychoanalyst, that the problems of occultism do not concern me" In three of his most fascinating essays, Freud departs from the main lines of psychoanalytic theory to consider the problems of parapsyehology. Here, with intuitíve geniüs, he invades the murky world of mysticism, magic, and miracles to reveal reason in the irrational. Describing the uncanny as "that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar," Freud applies his famous "compulsion to repeat" theory in order to investigate the eerie feelings, telepathic messages, premonitions, and terrifying fantasies that characterize uncanniness. In "Dreams and Telepathy" he riddles the popular contention that telepathy affects the nature of dreams - without rejecting the possibility of the telepathic phenomenon. Finally, Freud focuses on the historically recurrent, and thoroughly intriguing, psychic puzzle of evilspirits,... Tovább

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"I am not^.going to take up the position that I am nothing but a psychoanalyst, that the problems of occultism do not concern me" In three of his most fascinating essays, Freud departs from the main lines of psychoanalytic theory to consider the problems of parapsyehology. Here, with intuitíve geniüs, he invades the murky world of mysticism, magic, and miracles to reveal reason in the irrational. Describing the uncanny as "that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar," Freud applies his famous "compulsion to repeat" theory in order to investigate the eerie feelings, telepathic messages, premonitions, and terrifying fantasies that characterize uncanniness. In "Dreams and Telepathy" he riddles the popular contention that telepathy affects the nature of dreams - without rejecting the possibility of the telepathic phenomenon. Finally, Freud focuses on the historically recurrent, and thoroughly intriguing, psychic puzzle of evilspirits, ashe analyzes a classic caseof "demonicalpossession." The Editor PHILIP RIEFF is the author of Freud, The Mind of a Morálist and other works. In preparing this edition of the Collected Papers, he has organized the essays so that the material in each of the ten volumes illuminates a particular aspect of Freud's work. The papers are, for the most part, arranged chronologically so that the reader may see how Freud's ideas took shape, from first insight to complete concept. In his introduction to this book Dr. Rieff underlines Freud's unique qualifications for the investigation of psychic phenomena and presents his own views on parapsyehology in terms of sociology and religion. Vissza