RELIGION AND 'CREATIVE ILLNESS' IN JUNG'S NIGHT JOURNEY INTO THE PSYCHICDEPTH
Keywords:
Religion, PyschologyAbstract
According to Henri Ellenberger, the historian of psychiatry, shamans, mystics, creative writers, artists, and philosophers sometimes undergo creative crises which are accompanied by recurrent neurotic and psychosomatic symptoms. Because of the accompanying psychological and physical disorders, Ellenberger suggests that shamanic ecstasy and mystical illumination should be classified as "creative illness", a term adopted from the German Romantic poet, Novalis.
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