The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emersonâs Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America

ClÃ©mence Boulouque

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Chapter 4 The Abyss, the Oversoul, and the Kabbalistic Overtones in Emersonâs Work: Tracing the Pre-Freudian Unconscious in America

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Through an examination of specific motifs in the Emersonian corpus, namely the abyss and the Oversoul, this study focuses on the Kabbalah-inflected tropes and their impact on Emersonâs representations of the unconscious by way of German philosophy (more specifically through Jakob Boehme and GWF Schelling). Instead of interpreting these tropes as mysticism, of which he was critical, Emerson viewed them as a link between ontology and psychology (influenced by Victor Cousinâs ecclectism), and as an articulation of the collective and the individual, thus defining the American religion, which Allan Bloom has famously held to be Emersonâs âhighest achievement.â

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Kabbalah in America

Ancient Lore in the New World

Series:Â Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 64

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Print Publication Date:: 27 Apr 2020

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