...peculiar feeling, which he himself is never without. ... It is a feeling which he would like to call a sensation of 'eternity', a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded — as it were, oceanic." Freud immediately informs us that he himself has had no such experience, but that he understands what...

...Remain Rolland had accused him of failing to recognize "the true source of religious sentiments" in "a sensation of 'eternity,' a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded — as it were, oceanic" (2I .64), Freud, who confesses that he cannot find the oceanic feeling in himself, argues that its...

...which he may suppose is present in millions of people. It is a feeling which he would like to call a sensation of 'eternity', a feeling as of something...particular channels, and doubtless also exhausted by them. One may, he thinks, rightly call oneself religious on the ground Of this oceanic feeling alone, even...

...feeling', though one he supposed present 'in millions of people', a feeling he would like to call 'a sensation of "eternity", a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded - as it were, "oceanic"'. Freud understands this 'oceanic feeling' as being 'a feeling of an indissoluble bond, of being one...

...sentiments" lies not in the Oedipal situation but in a peculiar "feeling which he would like to call a sensation of 'eternity', a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded — as it were, 'oceanic'" (Freud 1962, p. 11). Freud himself is inclined to doubt that such sensations are the "fons et origo...

...who acknowledges that the "oceanic feeling ... of something limitless, unbounded" is the "source of religious energy which is seized upon by the various Churches and religious systems." He concludes, however: "I cannot discover this feeling in myself (v. 21, 64). 4 In spite of his admission...

..."limitless, / ocean-weight" that the mollusk's monitoring locks out recalls Freud's description of the "sensation of 'eternity,' a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded — as it were, 'oceanic' " in Civilization and Its Discontents (p. 64). There, Freud traces "oceanic feeling" to the "infant...

...which he may suppose is present in millions of people. It is a feeling which he would like to call a sensation of 'eternity', a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded — as it were, 'oceanic.' " Freud admits he can't find this feeling in himself, so he sets out to find its sources through a...

...Obviously, the feelings Arvay experiences here are analogous to what Freud calls the "oceanic feeling," a sensation "of 'eternity,' a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded — as it were, 'oceanic'" (Civilization 11). Freud was disturbed by this concept, described to him by a friend, since it seemed...

...reading of Freud's The Future of an Illusion. Freud reports that for Rolland, the oceanic feeling was "a sensation of 'eternity,' a feeling as of something limitless, unbounded— as it were, 'oceanic.' . . . One may, he thinks, rightly call oneself religious on the ground of this oceanic feeling alone,...