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Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, E.M. Forster and Ingmar Bergman all made the paranormal essential to their depiction of humanity. Freud recognized telepathy as an everyday phenomenon. Observations on parapsychological aspects of psychoanalysis also include the findings of the Mesmerists, Jung, Ferenczi and Eisenbud.
Many academicians attribute such psychic discoveries to "poetic license" rather than to accurate understanding of our parapsychological capacities. The author--a practicing psychoanalyst and parapsychologist, and a lawyer familiar with Navajo culture--argues for a fresh appraisal of psi phenomena and their integration into psychoanalytic theory and clinical work, literary studies and anthropology.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Foreword by Mikita Brottman
Introduction
I. Psi Phenomena in Western Literature
One¿¿¿Hamlet: The Tragedy of a Parapsychologist
Twö¿¿Psi Phenomena and Tolstoy
Three¿¿¿E.M. Forster's A Passage to India: Psi, Culture and Causality
Four¿¿¿G.K. Chesterton and Ingmar Bergman: Artists of Magic and Psi Whose Intimations Proved Too Real
Five¿¿¿Telepathy and Psychic Connections in James Joyce's Ulysses: A Window into the Psychoanalyst's World
II. Psi Phenomena and Psychoanalysis
Six¿¿¿Psi and Psychoanalysis I: Rescuing Sisyphus
Seven¿¿¿Psi and Psychoanalysis II: Rescuing Sisyphus Today
III. Psi Phenomena and Culture
Eight¿¿¿The Navajo Hand Trembler: Multiple Roles of the Psychic in Traditional Navajo Society
Nine¿¿¿Magic and Psi: Some Speculations on Their Relationship
Ten¿¿¿Western Law and Parapsychology
Conclusion
Afterword by Michael Prescott
Appendix A: Jule Eisenbud: Explorer
Appendix B: Correspondence with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
Appendix C: A Cloak and Dagger Psi Mystery Story
Glossary
Index
About the author
Richard Reichbart is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Positions held include past president of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City; past president of the New Jersey Society for Psychoanalysis; fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association; member of the American Psychoanalytic Association; and member of the Parapsychological Association.
