Freud's 'Oceanic Feeling'

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In Civilisation and its Discontents, Freud attributes the 'oceanic feeling' experienced by religious people (and posited by them as proof of God's existence) to something vestigial left over from infancy. At the stage of development where the infant cannot properly

Freud's 'Oceanic Feeling'

Freud's 'Oceanic Feeling'

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In Civilisation and its Discontents, Freud attributes the 'oceanic feeling' experienced by religious people (and posited by them as proof of God's existence) as something vestigial left over from infancy. At the stage of development where the infant cannot properly separate itself from what it perceives of the world around it (its mother's breast, its bed, the room etc.), the inf

Freud's 'Oceanic Feeling'