Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 12:10pm.
When I suffered from extreme depression I seemed to be blind to any finer feelings of beauty, or oceanicness at all. I do think that my depression was part of a growth process in which ecstasy and pessimism were integrated in various ways. I go along with the naturalistic explanations, because I think oceanicness is not to be understood as an inner or outer event.
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but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)
Depression and oceanic feelings seem to be mutually exclusive.
When I suffered from extreme depression I seemed to be blind to any finer feelings of beauty, or oceanicness at all. I do think that my depression was part of a growth process in which ecstasy and pessimism were integrated in various ways. I go along with the naturalistic explanations, because I think oceanicness is not to be understood as an inner or outer event.