Freud and Religion: Advancing the Dialogue

ISBN-13: 9781108453707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

William B. Parsons

Opis

Offers a revised psychoanalytic theory of religion by sifting through the history of psychoanalytic models in dialogue with their multidisciplinary critiques.

Recenzje

'William Parsons has written a provocative book on Freud's relevance to the study of religion in modern times … It should be mandatory reading for those who would deny the relevance of either psychoanalysis or religion to the concerns that psychological science claims to address by its own commitments, for which they claim an unwarranted epistemic hegemony and ontology.' Ralph W. Hood Jr, International Journal of Psychology of Religion

Spis treści

1. Why Freud wrote on Religion; 2. Totem and taboo: the origin of religion; 3. Freud's Moses: the advent of monotheism; 4. Future of an illusion: the secular cure of souls; 5. Civilization and its discontents: the Unbehagen of religion; 6. Freud and eastern religions; 7. Psychoanalysis and religion beyond Freud; 8. Revisions and applications; Conclusion: Psychoanalytic spirituality.