The Oceanic feeling (n.) is the psychological feeling of limitlessness that religion provokes in man. For freud it is a fragment of infantile consciousness before the infant begins to distinguish himself from his human and non-human environment.
Oceanic feeling (n.) is Freud's term for the surviving primary ego-feeling: limitless extension and oneness with the universe.
The Oceanic feeling (n.) is a sensation of eternity, of something limitless and unbounded — religious energy that needs no belief at all.
The Oceanic feeling (n.) is the consolation that we cannot fall out of this world — a feeling of an indissoluble bond with everything.
The Oceanic feeling (n.) shows our ego-feeling to be only a shrunken residue of an all-embracing feeling that once bound us to the whole world.