Research Catalog

Title

The recovery of self : regression and redemption in religious experience / Kevin Fauteux.

Author

Fauteux, Kevin, 1953-

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Paulist Press, c1994.

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Details

Description

vii, 248 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Experience (Religion)
• Regression (Psychology)
• Adjustment (Psychology) > Religious aspects
• Psychoanalysis and religion
• Psychology, Religious
• Regression, Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-223) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Oceanic Experience -- 1. Regression and Religious Experience. Religious Experience. Psychological Regression -- 2. Ego Regression and Purgation. Dying to Self. Regression and Dying to Self. Primitivization of Ego. Primitivization of Ego and Thought Reform. Relief at Loss of Ego -- 3. Instinctual Regression and Religious Experience. From Self-Sacrifice to Primitive Instincts. Primitive Instincts. Elation. Elation and Superego Regression. Retreat from Reality and Flight into Fantasy -- 4. Symbiotic Regression: The Experience of Unity. Unitive Experience. Superego Regression and Unitive Experience. Ego Ideal and Group Unity. Symbiotic Unity. Paradise Restored and Lost. Aggression Threatens Unity. Splitting of Aggression as Defense against Loss of Unity. Projection of Split-off Aggression. Absence of AggressionDiminishes Unitive Experience -- 5. Regression and Adaptation. Regression in Service of the Ego. Creativity. Religious Experience: From Regression to Progression.
• 6. Adaptation in Ego-Regressive "Dying to Self" Early Unconscious Process and the Development of a Separate Self. The "False Self" The Defensive Self. Dismantling the Defensive Ego. Dismantling of Ego in Art. Religious Experience and Purgation of the Defensive Ego. Adaptive Spiritual Disciplines. Meditation. Adaptive Dark-Night Purgation of Ego -- 7. Illumination and Adaptive Regression in the Service of the Ego. Recovery of Primary Process Creativity. Artistic Inspiration. Religious Illumination. Jung and Regressive Primary Process. Intuition as an Example of Creative Primary Process -- 8. Regressive Restoration and Reparation of Symbiotic Unity. Moratorium. Incubation. Religious Experience and "Basic Trust" New Beginning. The Safe Environment of Religious Experience and Transference. The Safe Environment of the Artist. Acknowledgement of Repressed Feelings and Withdrawal of Their Projections. Confronting "Basic Fault" -- 9. Elaboration of Religious Experience. Regression and Elaboration in Creativity.
• Emergence Out of Unitive Experience. Recovered Primary Process Leads to Psychosis as well as to Illumination. Elaboration of Religious Experience Gives Critical Shape to Unbounded Primary Process. Freedom in Structure. Making Sense of the Experience. From Passivity to Activity in Art. From Passivity to Activity in Religious Experience -- Epilogue: Regression in Service of the Ego or Expansion of Ego?

ISBN

0809134233 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^93037488^

OCLC

• 28965694
• SCSB-10279272

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library