Freud categorizes the oceanic feeling as being a regression into an earlier state of consciousness before the ego had differentiated itself from the world of objects.

A century later Freud made the same crossing and in "The Future of an Illusion" tried to reduce most of religion to that "oceanic feeling."

Freud argues that the "oceanic feeling", if it exists, is the preserved "primitive ego-feeling" from infancy.

Freud argues that those experiencing an oceanic feeling as an adult are actually experiencing a preserved primitive ego-feeling.

This correspondence introduced Freud to the concept of the "oceanic feeling" that Rolland had developed through his study of Eastern mysticism.

The term "oceanic feeling" is a psychoanalytic term for the spiritual feeling of limitlessness.

Looking up at the whale's belly from the ground floor could put one awash in Freud's "oceanic feeling," a generic serenity, fear of drowning, or deep religiosity.

Rolland, who like Freud rejected religious institutions, contended that this "oceanic" feeling was the font of spirituality, the subjective sense from which religion grew.

Rolland derived the notion of an "oceanic feeling" from various sources.

Even a listener who finds the genre resistible may feel the tug of unguarded sentiment, an oceanic feeling free from false accents of affectation.