But some part of us may still seek to regress to an earlier state of existence, a state of bliss in which there is no feeling of isolation, no feeling of separation. Many contemporary psychologists feel that the early ‘oneness’ experience is incorporated into our subconscious mind, and as an adult it permeates our unconscious and private fantasies. They believe that the merging with the loved one when one is ‘in love’ echoes the experience of being merged with the mother in infancy. It recreates that magic feeling, a feeling of omnipotence, as if all things are possible. A feeling like that is
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