Ocean feeling or ocean sensation (oceanica gut feeling.) When I first stumbled upon these words, thousands of stars, grains of sand and drops of water sparkled within me at the same time, and I am not at all afraid to say that I heard the life-giving echo of the ocean. I thought that these are the right ones, the most appropriate to describe the feeling of calm and happiness, fullness and joy that I feel when I write, when I hug my child, when my values are aligned with how I stand in life, when I love myself.
The concept of "oceanic emotion" was first fleshed out by Romain Rolland during his correspondence with Freud. Well, how else...?
Roland, deeply – and I would rightly add – influenced by the study of Eastern mysticism, writes to his friend about the oceanica gut feeling. and the father of psychoanalysis, in 1929, begins his book ""Culture a source of discomfort", with a discussion about the nature of this feeling.
Two friends, Roland and Freud, with mutual admiration for each other. I wonder now about friendship and whether the "oceanic feeling" could be the derivative of a deep, authentic, equal friendship. I think so...
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