"...Nirvana is..'an ice cold, all comprehending yet scarcely comprehensible insight.'Sigmund Frued" Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p4
" 'Feeling of Unity...is projected onto nature and transformed into the understanding of nature' both in mysticism and science. Adolf Hautler 1907" Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p4
[solopistic]...."1913, Trigant Burrow proposed that the neonate has now experience of anything existing but itself. (Primary Identification - T.Burrow)" Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p5
"....'for the infantile psyche...there is originally an identification of the object (the mother )with the primary ego.' T. Burrow 1913 p123" Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p5
"...[Freud] could not agree with Burrow that neonatal experiences could involve precepts and affects without involving consciousness...[but] endorsed the postulated developmental transition from neonatal solipsism to realistic objectivity." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p6
"...the sensorium comes to be differentiated by means of reality testing into self and its objects..." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p6
"Burrow['s]...theory of the end of the mental oneness of the infant with the maternal organism 'through the origin of consciousness bended...Kierkegaards's exigies of the biblical fall of Adam with Neitzche's concept of primal unity (Ur-Eine) the mystica Dionysian source of all existence..." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p6
"[Herbert] Silber claimed that mysticism accomplished a therapeutic resolution of the Oedipus complex by integrating conscience within consciousness." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p7
...[Otto] Rank added 'The Hindu Yoga practice through mystical mediation likewise enables EACH INDIVIDUAL HIMSELF TO BECOME GOD tha is, by entering the womb, by being transformed back into the embryo, he participates in the god-llike omnipotence' Rank 1924 " Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p8
"...an early Romantic allegory of the soul's descent into the body, its return to the spiritual realm, and its subsequent reversion to the body and loss of immortality" Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p13
"In the 1980's,when direct infant observation...established that newborns communicate with their mothers, the theory of neonatal solipsism was falsified." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p 17
"Freud acknowledged...that psychoanalysis and mysticism have similar effects on the ego, strengthening it, increasing its independence, widening its perception and enlarging its organization." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p 16
" ' A child's emotional impulses are intensely and inexhaustibly deep[er]...than... an adult: only religious ecstasy can bring them back' Freud 1939 'Mysticism is the obscure self-perception of the realm outside the ego, of the id' Freud 1941" Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p 16
"[Edith] Jacobson's [1955]...theory of infantile merger fantasy...for two decades...articulated the consensus among ego psychologists concerning the origin of the ego ideal...[she] had relocated subject-object non-differentiation from the infantile ego feeling postulated by Freud to the content of an infantile fantasy...Merger originated as wish fulfillment." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p 17
"No mystical experience is a simple or direct fantasy of merger with the mother...Unitive experiences include no imagery that manifestly portrays any..part ..or whole of the mothers body" Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p 18
"...a unitive experience consists...of a mode of conceptualizing unity that is superimposed on the sense perception of reality and/or the internal perceptions of the mind." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p18
"Phenomenologically...much of what the self includes-family, nation , humanity, country-is not the self at all;...Self is bound up in not-self, as though not-self were rooted in, and part of self. Identity, identicality is involved; it is not simply a question of attachment to what is other...our senses of ourselves shift automatically from context to context in [a] predictable but mysterious way{s}. Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p19
"All unitive modes involve...affects that accompany ideation...so powerful that their affirmation of the unitive ideas produces involuntary conviction in the ideas for the duration of the unitive experiences." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p20
"...unitive modes are analogous to colored filters that each admit only a certain color of light and register others only as a darkness and brightness. They selectively interfere with the perception of reality in fashions similar to the projection af transferences -highlighting, skewering, and repressing different aspects of reality, all at the same time." Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p20
"...'concentrative meditations' or self hypnotic techniques ...resultant experiences...cause unitive experiences to undergo riefication [a re-ideation of reality]...In place of a unitive appreciation of the perceptible world, dissociated unitive experiencing proceeds despite the perceptible world...Unavailable for reflective integration with the general reality sense, the ideas become transcendent, world denying truths...Mystical traditions [frequently] extend the reification beyond the moments of unitive experiencing into mystical theology or philosophy that derogates physical reality to lessor or greater extents. " Merkur: Psychoanalytical Mystics p20 [reification - the conversion of an abstract concept into something concrete; a viewing of the abstract as concrete.]
"Unitive modes...The Solitary Mode presents the self as a passive subject amid an affect of serenity, tranquility, peace and comfort...being timeless, boundless, and the only existent thing." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p21
"The Self-Trancendent Mode adopts the perspective of the not self, from which to view the self as an object...Since no one [can't be]..subjective, the...objective perspective of the mode is imaginary...It is a realistic speculation regarding perspective on self of a not-self." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p21
"The Incorporation Mode presents a self image that encompasses the whole of reality...a bodily self-image is realistic, but the incorporation of all reality within it is fantastic...[admitting and denying] the knowledge that reality consists of a great many different phenomena." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p21
"The Inclusion Mode is realistic in its presentation of a self-image that is limited to the bodily self. It locates the bodily self within a unified cosmos...a positive, hospitable place." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p21
"The Propriety Mode presents temporally present phenomena as right, proper, harmonious, utilitarian, functional and perfect, in and of themselves." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p25
"The Energic Mode presents all phenomena as manifestations of a universal energy...In its imagination of matter as energy, [it]...is inherently fantastic...However...metaphor[ically] it is potentially, completely realistic." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p25
"The Vitality Mode presents external phenomena as infused with a transcendent but immanent vitality. In its reification of vitality, [it]...is inherently fantastic...However...metaphor[ically] it is potentially, completely realistic." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p26
"The Loving Mode imagines self as the recipient of loves loving presence. In its reification of love [it]...is inherently fantastic...However...metaphor[ically] it is potentially, completely realistic." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p26
"The Omniscient Mode presents as identical with an intelligent and emotional personality whose knowledge and range of concerns are universal because...[it] is universal...it is one in number." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p26
"Due to the transcendence of the omniscient personality...[of the Omniscient Mode, it] is neither provable nor refutable. It is beyond the capacity for reality-testing to evaluate."Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p27
"The Omnipresent Mode presents external reality as the location of an omnipresent, divine, or holy power. Due to the transcendence of the omnipresent power...It is beyond the capacity for reality-testing to evaluate." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p27
"The Mode of Interior Dialogue involves intrapsychic affects and thoughts that seem subjectively to communicate the feelings and ideas of a personality other than ego. The..experience is subjectively recognized as an imagination. Due to the transcendence of the (alleged) personality whose feelings and ideas are communicated...[it]is neither provable nor refutable...the dialogue may be (within limits) completely realistic." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p28
" ' There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligability from any material...perception or thought...and if...unable to establish true connections...[it will]...fabricate a false one' Sigmund Freud 1913 p95" Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p29
"Condensation, the first and foremost operation of the dreamwork, routinely condenses mental representations...,akes all into one, producing the unitive component of the simplest or least intellectual unitive experiences." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p34
"...'proprioception' the minds perception of bodily perception...[it accomplishes the transition from the body to the mind by...creating mental representations of the bodies impulses." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p35
"If '...the ultimate goal of libido is the object [so that] libido is not primarily pleasure-seeking, but object seeking' [Fairbairn 1941 p31 1946 p36] then the converse is also true. The same compromise function that directs sexuality toward objects, also invests object relations with sexual meanings." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p35
"All mental representation of physiological impulses- including aggression -may routinely be sexualized through the unconscious operation of the compromise function." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p36
"The type of condensation that is responsible for extending sexuality...'is make possible by means of an unconscious metaphoric process that interprets and transforms sensations.' Model 2003 p89." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p36
"...synecdoche (part of the whole)...
....metonymy[-]...symbolilc association by juxtaposition...metaphor[-]... a knowing substitution of the signified by a signifier that may otherwise be completely unrelated and arbitrary." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p36
" '...the main purpose of Eros- that of uniting and binding.' Freud 1923a p45...[Freud] suggested that it is the ego's failure to sythesize that obliges it to split off the repressed." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p37
"[Freud]...further activity [of]...the ego's synthetic functions...the stabilization of ad hoc symbol formations into long term structures that integrated the pathological symbols within the ego's structure as defense mechanisms." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p38
"...'the ego...[has] a tendency to synthesis in its contents' Freud 1933 p76...
Freud's remarks presupposes that the ego accomplishes sense perception that obliges its drive to unity to compromise with external reality...laws of nature impose logic...and system on the psyche." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p39
"Constrained by reality, the ego never pursues unity as mystical experiences do..." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p39
"[Metonymy]...The types of syntheses that the common sense produces involve associations by juxtaposition...[Pavlov's Dog]...Because consciousness perceives reality, its unifications of sense data conform with the reality principle." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p41
"The bringing together of the individual senses in the common sense which is consciousness is the prototypical synthetic function of the ego." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p41
"...Freud's concept that condensation has the byproduct of investing single manifest contents with multiple meanings, so that their meaning may be said to be over-determined." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p42
"...'...In as much as each psychic act has a multiple function and therefore a multiple meaning and since one of those functions and meanings will refer to the problem of instinctual gratification(..the instinctual..is never entirely dormant), obviously everything that man does ...must contain the elements of instinctual gratification...' Robert Walder 1936 p52" Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p41
"...'Sublimations...successful solutions to the problem of adaptation to the outer world...and in accordance with another meaning...represent successful gratifications of strong impulses.' Walder 1936 p53"Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p41
" ' If it is really the super-ego which...speaks such kindly words of comfort to the intimidated ego, this will teach us that we still have a great deal to learn about the nature of the super-ego.' Freud 1927 b p166" Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p44
"...[the] super ego concept...[was]abandoned [by]...theories...based one-sidedly on clinical evidence of masochistic self-critism, psychosomatic symptoms, and self sabotaging behavior. [of Franz Alexander 1929 a&b, Melanie Kline 1933, 1935, and Hienz Hartmann (Hartmann, Kris and Lowenstien 1946, Hartmann and Lowenstien 1962]...pathologizing ...the super ego concept." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p44
"Ego psychology's concept of the ego as a central authority that integrates through mastery was inconsistent with [Herman] Nunberg's idea of 'free intercourse' of the id, ego and super-ego." Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p48
"...'integration'...a term of choice...of the concept of the 'free intercourse' pf the id, ego, ans super-ego....' "integration"...the sense of wholeness resulting from the organization of dynamic components.' Brierly 1951 p180" Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p48
"...'integration is a constant, creative transcendence of disintergative trends.' Brieley 1951 p181" Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p47
"[Brieley]suggested that the integration of the ego and super-ego there coincides not with the repression of sexuality, but with sublimation. Rather than a hypocritical hatred in the name of love, there is a genuine and unconflicted love [in early Christian Sainthood]. " Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p47
"...'It may be...that sanctity is the sublimatory positive of infantile sexuality...[as]neurosis is described as the negative of perversion...The true spiritual vocation is very rare...the high road for the majority ...[leads] to a more inclusice and democratic harmonization of id, ego, and super-ego systems to the development of more comprehensive reality sense and to the more enlightened ego-direction of personal life.' Brierley 1951 p228-229 " Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p48
"...'the essential capacity which has to be encouraged...is the capacity for active loving.' Brieley 1951 p225" Merkur, Explorations of the Psychoanalytic Mystics p49
"Treating Eros [Freud's mysterious metaphysical drive to unity]... as a metaphor [Merkur argues] that well known psychological processes- condensation, the sense organ of consciousness and unconscious superego functions- account for the unitive trends within the psyche." Merkur: Explorations of the Psychoanalytical Mystics p49
" [Otto Rank] postulated a chaotic, ever innovative, Dionysian 'Primal Unity' underlying an equally unified illusion of Apollonian form, structure, order and truth of phenomenal reality." Merkur: Explorations of the Psychoanalytical Mystics p 55
"Rank inaugurated paradigm shift in the psychological understanding of mysticism...not a question of rare, transient experiences that were unconnected with the major trends of psychic life. The psyche was mystical from birth to adulthood." Merkur: Explorations of the Psychoanalytical Mystics p 55
" When Rank wrote of 'will', he meant the power that formulates and intends intentions. Rank postulated that meaningful intentionality on the part of the unconsciousness arises directly from intentionality on the part of existence." Merkur: Explorations of the Psychoanalytical Mystics p 56
