Sacred Psychoanalysis - etheses Repository - University of ...

• Openness to the numinous and the mystical in a non-religious sense
• Belief in an Absolute Truth and Ultimate Reality
• Dreams and the Unconscious as messengers from God encountered as O
• Destiny is to be faced with a calm acceptance that embraces the suffering it brings
Stated simply Freudian and Kleinian metapsychology is based on the premise that people’s
psychic and subsequent emotional developments are based on the principles of pleasure
seeking and pain avoidance. It is possible to transcend these motivations by experiencing a
place of transcendence located within and without one’s self that is variously ineffable and
cannot be fully put into words, where the unconscious connects in unspoken
communication.
Conscious encounter
JG had taken on some large, vital, projected form in my psyche. Now knowing I have a
capacity to idolize, JG appeared an unlikely guru. Having engaged at depth with his highly
complex and fascinating Who is the dreamer who dreams the dream? A study of psychic
presences (Grotstein 2000) that led to a period of my own dreaming I was anticipating some
polymath figure who I was unsure I would be fully able to comprehend in an interview. The
human reality was very different. He was warm, affirming, complimentary and
communicated a vital interest in my research using the phrase ‘how wonderful’. My
research was framed as a form of mutual discovery as if he had something to learn as well.
Even in this relaxed atmosphere, my aim was to get as much from this person as possible in
the limited time available. So early on in the interview my anxiety very much drives this.
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