Emotion and Spirit: Questioning the Claims of Psychoanalysis and Religion

ISBN-13: 9781855752030 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 216 str.

N. Symington; Neville Symington

Opis

The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientiic religion with Freud as the leader of the movement.

Spis treści

Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Part One , The Nature of Primitive Religion , Mature Religion , The Judaeo-Christian Tradition , Religious Wisdom From the East , Socrates - Religious Teacher in Classical Greece , The Relation Between the Moral and the Spiritual , Towards a Definition of Religion , Part Two , Freud's Diagnosis of Religion , Meissner's Critique of Freud , The Challenge of Jung , From Causal to Moral in Psychoanalysis , The Current Relation Between Psychoanalysis and Religion , Erich Fromm's Assessment of Religion , Part Three , The Human Condition , Narcissism and the Human Condition , The Transformation of Narcissism through Psychoanalysis , Part Four , The Domain of Psychoanalysis , Conscience and the Super-Ego , Self-Knowledge, virtue and mental health , Psychoanalysis - A Spirituality , Psychoanalysis - A Spirituality in the World , Science and Religion , Conclusion

O autorze

Neville Symington