Freud and Augustine in Dialogue: Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and the Culture of Modern Spirituality

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213 Absolute, 47, 49 absolute unitary being (AUB), 97 Adam, 5, 35, 108, 124 adaptive-transformational analysis, 129, 141–42, 158, 166, 167, 169 Adeotatus (son of Augustine), 19, 21, 140 Aeneid (Virgil), 14, 30–35, 117, 118 afterlife. See eternal life; salvation Alexander, Franz, 164–65, 166, 167, 170, 171 al-Ghazali, 65 allegory of sin and disobedience, 35 Allport, Gordon, 137 Ambrose, 35, 38, 127, 128, 155 American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 169 Ames, E. S., 138 analytic access, 143, 152 anamnesis, 71 angelic mode, 110, 124, 174, 177 Anthony, Saint, 127 anthropological view, 121, 137, 152 anti-Semitism, 51 apocrypha, 91 archaic heritage, 83–86 archaic modes of cognition, 93–96 archetypal self of Augustine, 21, 154 ascent motif: communal nature of, 3, 38, 41–43; of Deikman, 95–96; and hypnotic trance, 88; Plotinian style of, 38; psychoanalytic, 70–71; scholars after Freud on, 91. See also Milan, vision at; Ostia, vision at; vision or ascent motif in Augustine Assagioli, Roberto, 11 atheism, 11 Augustine: adolescence to early adulthood of, 119–22, 130; boyhood of, 31, 116–19; changing psychoanalytic scholarship on, 27; Christianity’s meaning to, 39, 122–28; continuities between his life and thought, 20, 22–23, 26; de-idealization of, 119, 127, 143–44, 155; dependence on Christian nomenclature and concepts of his era, 105; divided will of, 5, 10, 126, 127, 131; ecstasy in, 77–78; and Eros (love), 69–76, 119; and eternal life, 5–6; Freudian characteristics of, 2, 87; historical vs. rhetorical Augustine, 30; influence of, 1; move from Carthage to Rome, 31; as mystic, 131–32; ontologizing and creating universal narrative, 156; as psychologist, 9, 170; relationship INDEX 214 INDEX Augustine (continued) with concubine, 19–20, 32, 119, 131; relationship with Monica, his mother, 13–18, 44, 76, 129–30; relationship with Patricius, his father, 13, 15, 36, 119, 121; and social base with spiritual concerns , 11–12; symposiums on, 12, 14–15; tolle et lege (take and read), 5; view of God, 3–5; view of mysticism, 1, 4, 23; view of religion and spirituality, 1. See also Confessions; intellectual visions; mysticism in Augustine; vision or ascent motif in Augustine; specific titles of writings Augustine: The Scattered Gathered Self (Dixon), 15 Augustinus: Eine Psychographie (Legewie), 10 Aurobindo, Sri, 146 Austin, James, 97 autobiographies, 9, 10, 21, 29, 32, 54. See also psychobiography automatization, 94–95 autonomy vs. dependency, 14, 17, 22 Ayurvedic medicine, 161 Badham, Paul, 99 Bakan, David, 12, 14, 19, 22 baptism, 21, 22, 34–35 basement theology, 14, 45, 140, 183n25 beatific vision, 40, 42 Beers, William, 15, 17 Berguer, Georges, 87, 136, 138 Berkeley, George, 164 Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 72, 75 Bettelheim, Bruno, 96 Bhagavad Gita, 79–80 Bion, Wilfred, 149, 153 bishop of Hippo. See Augustine Blackmore, Susan, 99 Blackstone, Judith, 170, 172–73, 176, 177 Blavatsky, Madame, 157 Bohr, Niels, 171 Boisen, Anton, 138 Bose, Girindrasekhar, 157, 168 both/and approach in psychoanalytic interpretation, 74, 76 Bouyer, Louis, 37, 47 brain studies, 97–98 Bremond, Abbe, 78 Brenman, Margaret, 94 bridal mysticism, 54, 72, 103 Brown, Peter, 9, 19, 20, 120, 128 Buber, Martin, 139 Bucke, R. M., 11, 65, 87, 136, 146–48, 153 Buddhism: and Alexander, 164–65; and anatta (no-self), 171, 173, 174, 175–76; Buddhist modernism, 168; and cognitive neuroscience, 97; in dialogue with psychoanalysis, 135–36, 167–69, 173–76; and end to suffering, 202n108; and enlightenment, 175, 176; and Jung, 153; and Masson, 200n90; and master-disciple relationship, 174; meditation in, 165, 166, 171, 172, 174; missionary activity of, 157; and mystical process, 103, 173–76; New Buddhism, 168; pejorative view of psychoanalysis toward, 164, 166–67; and psychospiritualists, 157, 158; and Rangtong understanding of self, 172–73; and reality, 163, 166; scope of, 171–72; and Shentong view of consciousness, 173; and Suzuki, 168; and Thompson, 165–67; transformational approach to, 170; and vipassana technique, 171; Western appropriations from, 27; and wholeheartedness, 169. See also nirvana “Buddhistic Training as an Artificial Catatonia (The Biological Meaning of Psychic Occurrences)” (Alexander), 164 Bulkeley, Kelly, 96–98, 100 Burrell, David, 22, 33 Burrow, Trigant, 89 Butler, Abbot, 1, 190n57 INDEX 215 cakras (spiritual energy), 75–76, 178 Calvin, John, 140 Calvin and Hobbes (comic strip), 111–12 Capps, Donald: and basement theology, 14, 45, 140, 183n25; on dyadic relation between mother and child, 15; and Garden of Eden, 124; and Kohut’s self psychology, 17...