Esoteric Traces in the Formation of Psychoanalysis: Before and After Science [Hardcover]

1. Methodological Considerations??2.?Dark Precursors to an Esoteric Psychoanalysis??3. Before and After Science??4. From Metapsychology to Magnetic Gnosis??5. From Mystical Gnosis to Esoteric Techn??6. ConclusionWho Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream?

In this fascinating new book, John Boyle provides an account of the neglected contributions made by Western esotericism in the formation of an occluded psychoanalytic parapsychology active within psychoanalysis, the distinguishing features of which he argues have continued to persist within psychoanalysis to this day.

This is a stunning expression of what I have called the superhumanitiesa profound fusion (because they are already fused) of critical theory, reflexivity, and altered states toward (or from) the future, here as a deep history of an esoteric psychoanalysis and a vastly expanded human subject that will shock and wow.?

Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of?How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else

In a work combining encyclopedic erudition with an inspired vision, John Boyle provides a theoretical exposition of how esoteric traces came to be encrypted within psychoanalysis during the course of its formation, resulting in the development of an Orphic trajectory whose effects have persisted within psychoanalysis to this day. Boyles range of reference extends from the ancient and modern prehistory of psychoanalysis, through the occult milieu of the Budapest School, exemplified by Ferenczi, Severn, and Nandor Fodor, to the beams of intense darkness emitted by the later Bion, Matte-Blanco, and James Grotstein.?Esoteric Traces in the Formation of Psychoanalysis?is both a grand tour through the history of ideas and a