Freuds discussion of the “oceanic feeling” in The Civilization and its Discontents is reviewed. An alternative to Freud's genetic interpretation is suggested: a perception by the human mind of a basic aspect of human relatedness. David Bohm's implicate order, Kelman's kairos and communing and Bion's transformation in O and faith are discussed as examples of an understanding of human relatedness as fundamentally based on “being one with the external world as a whole”. In a clinical vignette I present the analytic work with a woman who feels she is not accepted as a member of the human kind neither by her fellow human beings nor by God. Some possible implications for the psychoanalytic work of the view of human relatedness which I have presented are suggested.