Legacies of the Occult - Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Unconscious Communication

Early psychological theorists such as William James, Frederic W. H. Myers, and Sigmund Freud all agreed that telepathy (aka thought transference, or unconscious communication) exists. Yet the phenomenon was largely ignored by subsequent generations of psychoanalysts, persisting only as a subterranean, quasi-spiritual presence, and has only regained significant interest recently.
In Legacies of the Occult, Marsha Aileen Hewitt reviews the differing theories of James, Myers, and Freud, and extends their ideas to the field of religious psychology. The result is an insightful and highly original work that will be of interest to scholars of psychology, philosophy, and theology, as well as to the general reader.

About the author

Marsha Aileen Hewitt is Professor of Religion at Trinity College and the Department for the Study of Religion in the University of Toronto. Professor Hewitt's books include From Theology to Social Theory: Juan Luis Segundo and the Theology of Liberation (1990), Critical Theory of Religion: A Feminist Analysis (1995) and Freud on Religion (2014). She is a psychoanalyst in private practice.

Product details

• Authors: Marsha Aileen Hewitt
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781781792780
• ISBN: 978-1-78179-278-0
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 473 g
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries