Phychoanalysis And The Social Sciences -vol-i by Geza Roheim

Author:Geza Roheim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: IIIT

NEW VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES

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refused to give biographical data about himself; but in a hidden place in his writings he mentions his childhood; "We had an unusual mother who often turned back and pretended to have forgotten something, when she caught us in the store-room.” Although Hamsun had this tendency to hide all details about his development, one description by the Norwegian Trygve Braatory, of a striking character trait of the main persons in some of his books may be quoted: "Love and hatred, contempt and veneration in turn, are felt toward the same object—^toward God and existence.”

MAX DAUTHENDEY

I discussed one of the most striking examples of our problem in my paper on the German poet Max Dauthendey. In his autobiography his ambivalent relation to his domineering father is described very lucidly: "My father’s spirit rules all I do. He comes and goes (a long time after his death) as if alive. For me his spirit still rises daily with the sun and stays with the stars in the nocturnal sky.”

Too hard and too strong to be loved unambiguously, these super-fathers are so attractive and imposing, so efficient in everything and represent such perfect models for ambition, that the children are not able to reject them with indifference. The sons remain in feminine dependency, in fetters for a long time, or for ever, or they break loose fighting in heroic love for their mothers or her representatives and thereby fighting the omnipotent fathers.

Max Dauthendey demonstrates clearly the psychoanalytic concepts of conversion and counter-conversion of apostasy. For three months he had hardly spoken a word to his father, finally he left the house thoroughly fed up with the tyrant. A single remark of a friend made him a pantheist, who could imagine the heavens empty and could dethrone the old God. The apostasy from the father made the son able to sustain the apostasy from

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