Uncanny Communication and the Porous Mind

Psychoanalysis and Telepathic Processes

“…Also in France, the 1983 publication of Granoff and Rey’s L’occulte, objet de la pensée freudienne (The Occult: Object of Freudian Thought) marked a renewal in psychoanalytic explorations of telepathy (see, e.g., Barbier and Decourt 1998; Bernat 2001). The last two decades have shown a growing interest concerning this topic, with papers published in many psychoanalytic journals (Brottman 2011; de Peyer 2014, 2016; Eshel 2006, 2010, 2012, 2019; Mayer 2001, 2007; Papazian 2017; Reichbart 2018; Rosenbaum 2011; Sánchez-Medina 2018; Totton 2003, 2007). Notable here is a paper by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer (2001), which included the posthumous publication of an article by Robert Stoller concerning telepathy.…”

Depicting the Ethereal, Part I: Visual Art and Psi

“…The surrealists engaged in various activities, some potentially psi-related, within a communal context in which connections across people could be established. The idea of transient communities of shared psi mentality has been described within the therapeutic setting (e.g., Cardeña, 2019b;De Peyer, 2016), whose emotional context would be closer to that of a community of artists (or of other intense emotional connections) than the emotionally cold setting of most controlled experiments. The creation of a "psychic community" was a goal in Susan Hiller's Draw Together (1972) and The Dream Seminar (1973) created communal waking and putative dreaming psi events (see Iribas, 2020, for a thorough discussion of these and other relevant works of Hiller).…”

Mind Leaks: A Commentary on Wooffitt’sPoetic Confluence: A Sociological Analysis of an Enigmatic Moment

“…Whatever our preferred answer, it would lead, as the psychoanalyst Stolorow (1991, p. 176) asserted, "to question the very concept of an isolated mind or psyche," albeit in a far more expanded way than he meant. Another eminent psychoanalyst, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer (2001) did mention that psi phenomena are also part of the intersubjectivity discussed in psychoanalysis (see also De Peyer, 2016).…”