ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is a morality functioning between persons bound together by familial or sexual intimacy. There is a sphere of activity existing between persons bound together by bonds of intimacy which we name the emotional. When we turn our attention to spirituality we embark upon a very big subject. All the great religions have spawned schools of spirituality, each of which emphasizes a particular road to achieving spiritual maturity. Despite all these differences, certain keynotes are characteristic of all of them – so much so that the central means of achieving spiritual maturity are shared by spiritual schools in whatever religious tradition they are to be found. So, for instance, the spiritual aims of a Christian mystic, an Islamic Sufi, a Hasidic Jew, a Buddhist arahat or a Taoist saint will be and are very similar. Psychoanalysis is a spirituality, but thoroughly different in its methodology.
