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Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, E.M. Forster and Ingmar Bergman all made the paranormal essential to their depiction of humanity. Freud recognized telepathy as an everyday phenomenon. Observations on parapsychological aspects of psychoanalysis also include the findings of the Mesmerists, Jung, Ferenczi and Eisenbud.
Many academicians attribute such psychic discoveries to "poetic license" rather than to accurate understanding of our parapsychological capacities. The author--a practicing psychoanalyst and parapsychologist, and a lawyer familiar with Navajo culture--argues for a fresh appraisal of psi phenomena and their integration into psychoanalytic theory and clinical work, literary studies and anthropology.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Mikita Brottman
Introduction
I. Psi Phenomena in Western Literature
One • Hamlet: The Tragedy of a Parapsychologist
Two • Psi Phenomena and Tolstoy
Three • E.M. Forster's A Passage to India: Psi, Culture and Causality
Four • G.K. Chesterton and Ingmar Bergman: Artists of Magic and Psi Whose Intimations Proved Too Real
Five • Telepathy and Psychic Connections in James Joyce's Ulysses: A Window into the Psychoanalyst's World
II. Psi Phenomena and Psychoanalysis
Six • Psi and Psychoanalysis I: Rescuing Sisyphus
Seven • Psi and Psychoanalysis II: Rescuing Sisyphus Today
III. Psi Phenomena and Culture
Eight • The Navajo Hand Trembler: Multiple Roles of the Psychic in Traditional Navajo Society
Nine • Magic and Psi: Some Speculations on Their Relationship
Ten • Western Law and Parapsychology
Conclusion
Afterword by Michael Prescott
Appendix A: Jule Eisenbud: Explorer
Appendix B: Correspondence with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
Appendix C: A Cloak and Dagger Psi Mystery Story
Glossary
Index
