Religious Conversion: A Bio-psychological StudyHarcourt, Brace & Company, 1927 - 324 pages |
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according admitted adolescence æsthetic affective agnosticism alienists appears Augustine become believe Benedetto Croce Catholic Catholicism chapter Christ Church complex conception conflict consciousness conversional process desire dissociation divine doctrine emotions experience fact faith feel Francis François Coppée Freud Freudian Giovanni Colombini Giovanni Papini grace hallucinations identification implies impulse individual insanity instance intellectual intuition Italian Leuba libido Mainage mental method modern moral morbid mutation mystic nervous normal object observed occur Paris passions pathological period phase phenomenon philosopher process of sublimation projection psychiatry psychic energy psychic personality psychic systems psycho psycho-analysis psychology of religion purely reader recognize regard religion religious conversion religious phenomena religious psychology representations Ribot Robert Hugh Benson saints scientific sense sensuality sexual instinct social soul spirit Stanley Hall Starbuck subconscious sublimation symptoms tendencies term theory thought tion to-day transference translation true unconscious vision volitional W. H. R. RIVERS words
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Page 129 - The dolce stil novo of Dante furnishes an example of the sublimation of love. One may think that Dante sublimated his carnal love for Gemma Donati and for others by means of his divine love for Beatrice, as he confesses in the Comedia : Con la predetta conoscenza viva Tratto m'hanno del mar dell' amor torto E del diritto m'han posto alla riva.
Page 50 - The so-called psychic states preceding conversion seem all to have this in common, that they dissolve the economy of the individual, and excite the soul, but cannot satisfy it or allay its disturbance. They are psychic states which propound questions, but do not answer them ; they initiate, but do not complete. They provoke a suspension of the soul in which they are being experiencedThis is the reason why all converts express themselves as happy after the crisis.
Page 267 - Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Page 311 - Cf. E. Recejac, Essai sur les fondements de la connaissance mystique (Paris, 1897). An excellent book, containing a good discussion of hallucination and the other so-called pathological phenomena of mysticism, cf. pp. 165, 175, 180 et seq. The writer demonstrates that in sane mysticism there are certain subjective phenomena due, not to insanity, but to the imagination. For the question of insanity see Chapter II.
Page 151 - Onde poniam che di necessitate Surga ogni amor che dentro a voi s'accende, Di ritenerlo è in voi la potestate. La nobile virtù Beatrice intende Per lo libero arbitrio, e però guarda, Che l'abbi a mente, s'a parlar ten prende.