The Other Freud: Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9780415196598 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str.

James Dicenso

Opis

This is an analysis of Freud's major writings on religion and culture. The author analyses the texts and uses theories derived from contemporary French theorists Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to draw a critical portrait of the other Freud. The author addresses concerns from the fields of psychoanalytic theory, postmodern thought, cultural theory, and religious studies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction: tensions in Freud, extensions in Lacan and Trauma, Oedipus complex, and the exigencies of subjective Formation; Traumatic experience and psychical reality; Oedipal dynamics and entry into the symbolic 2 Religion, ethics, and acculturation; Freud’s critique of religion and the latent issue of ethical Transformation; Lacan and the problem of modalities of subjectivity 3 Displacement, supplementarity, and symbolic meaning in Totem and Taboo; The myth of origins and the problem of origination; Omnipotence of thoughts and cultural reality; The sacrifice: from the real to the symbolic; 4 Moses and Monotheism: the trauma of symbolization; More originary hypotheses; Textual and psychological vicissitudes; Trauma and the return of the repressed; 5 Moses and Monotheism: the psychodynamics of Geistigkeit; The great man and the symbolic order; The realm of Geist; Drive renunciation and subjective transformation 6 Psycho-cultural inquiry from Freud to Kristeva; Issues of critique and transformation; Displacing the ego and opening to the Other; The unconscious structured like a language; Kristeva on melancholia, art, and religion; Concluding Remarks

O autorze

James J. DiCenso is Associate Professor at the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Hermeneutics and the Disclosure of Truth.