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Spiritualism, Psychoanalysis, and psychodrama
Author(s) -
Bonilla Eduardo Seda
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1969.71.3.02a00100
Subject(s) - spiritualism , psychodrama , psychoanalysis , id, ego and super ego , possession (linguistics) , existentialism , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , medicine , linguistics , alternative medicine , pathology
The term “fluids” of spiritualism seems related to the libido concept in psychoanalysis. A mental breakdown explained as possession by spirits with whom the patient has been in contact in another existence (existential situation) seems to have affinity with a phenomena similar to what psychoanalysts call a “flooding of the ego by a return of the repressed.” When compared with psychotherapeutic practice, spiritualism reveals clear affinities with psychodrama.