RAMAKRISHNA - MYSTICAL, EROTIC, OR BOTH

Authors
ROLAND A
Citation
A. Roland, RAMAKRISHNA - MYSTICAL, EROTIC, OR BOTH, Journal of religion and health, 37(1), 1998, pp. 31-36
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath",Religion
Journal title
Journal of religion and health → ACNP
ISSN journal
00224197
Volume
37
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
31 - 36
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4197(1998)37:1<31:R-MEOB>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The lengthy psychoanalytic discourse on Ramakrishna is traced from Rem ain Rolland's dialogue with Freud on the spiritual to later uses of ap plied psychoanalysis by Sudhir Kakar, Jeffrey Masson, and Jeffrey Krip al. Basic problems in applying psychoanalysis to great spiritual figur es such as Ramakrishna are illustrated through an analysis of Kripal's Kali's Child. Newer approaches to deal more adequately with the spiri tual self and psychopathology are cited.