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From Ecstasy to Divine Somnambulism: Henri Delacroix’s Studies in the History and Psychology of Mysticism (2020)

Iagher, Matei (Author)

History of Psychology
Volume: 23
Issue: 4
Pages: 333-350
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

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This article aims at placing Henri Delacroix’s (1908) book on the psychology of mysticism in the context of debates in the psychology of religion in the earlier part of the 20th century. I argue that Delacroix’s work was authored as part of a wider debate that Delacroix maintained with the American school of the psychology of religion regarding the role of emotions in religious experience. As I show, Delacroix sought to counter the primacy of the affective in religious experience, which the Americans maintained, and to introduce the notion of a developmental logic into the mystical life. In addition, Delacroix also tried to disengage mysticism from an exclusive focus on ecstasy, as well as to offer an account of the value of mysticism based on the existence of a specific mental state that underscored it. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

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