Yoga and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on the Psychology of Regression (Paranjpe Anand C.)(Paperback)

This book discusses the relevance of tracing back the course of individual development noted in psychoanalysis (regression) and in Patajali's Yoga (prati-prasava).Although Freud found the diagnostic benefits in tracing the history of the patients' early childhood experiences, he also recognized the influences of the history of civilization and evolution. He also viewed the regression to earlier history in a negative light. Ernst Kris, on the other hand, saw some benefits of regression. The nature and extent of the influence of Jewish mysticism on Freud is highly controversial, and scholars have pointed out the possible influence of Kabalarian mysticism, which held that enlightenment follows from going all the way back to the origin of human beings at the beginning of the cosmos. This view has an interesting parallel in Patajali's Yoga. This volume highlights these
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