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Grotstein, J.S. Why Oedipus and Not Christ?: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Innocence, Human Sacrifice, and the Sacred—Part II: The Numinous and Spiritual Dimension as a Metapsychological Perspective. Am J Psychoanal 57, 317–335 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022467406962
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