Before and after science: esoteric traces in the formation of the Freudian psychoanalytic subject

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dc.contributor.authorBoyle, John
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-08T14:01:41Z
dc.date.available2021-10-08T14:01:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionJoint JISASR-JBASR Special Issueen
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that traces of the Western esoteric traditions can be found within Freudian psychoanalysis and proposes that the significance of such traces for the development of a specifically psychoanalytic understanding of the human subject has thus far been largely neglected. A critical-realist hauntology is proposed to act as the transmissive milieu for the persistence of such traces. The paper then provides a brief introduction to Western esotericism as an academic discipline prior to turning its attention to the conceptual metaphor of 'trace' as a means of articulating relations between esotericism and psychoanalysis at the latter's inception. The paper goes on to adumbrate a complex conceptual matrix conjoining Freudian psychoanalysis to fin de siècle occultism, psychical research, telepathy and the Jewish Kabbalah. The paper concludes by drawing attention to the persistence of esoteric traces in contemporary psychoanalysis and reflects on the synergistic potential of psychoanalytic ideas for the academic study of Western esotericism.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBoyle, J. (2019) 'Before and after science: esoteric traces in the formation of the Freudian psychoanalytic subject', Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 7, pp. 59-103.en
dc.identifier.endpage103en
dc.identifier.issn2009-7409
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religionsen
dc.identifier.startpage59en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12072
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://jisasr.org/about/current-issue-volume-7-2019/
dc.rights© ISASR 2019.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectFreuden
dc.subjectPsychoanalysisen
dc.subjectWestern esotericismen
dc.subjectOccultismen
dc.subjectTelepathyen
dc.subjectKabbalahen
dc.titleBefore and after science: esoteric traces in the formation of the Freudian psychoanalytic subjecten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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