Ebook: Unconscious wisdom: A superego function in dreams, conscience, and inspiration

Together with 'The Ecstatic Imagination' (Merkur, 1998) and 'Mystical Moments and Unitive Thinking' (Merkur, 1999), the present volume forms a trilogy on the psychoanalysis of religious experiences. Unconscious Wisdom is the last of the three volumes to be published. However, the theories that it presents were developed before the other volumes were completed—indeed, before they could be completed successfully. Unconscious Wisdom may be read on its own as a study of dreams, conscience, and creative inspiration; but these phenomena are considered religious in most cultures the world over. A theory of religious experiences that fails to address them is necessarily incomplete — and very likely inadequate.