Freud and Freudians on Religion : A Reader

Capps, Donald (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0300082010 / ISBN 13: 9780300082012

Published by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001

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Synopsis:

This book presents selections from Freud's writings on religion and from the work of five more recent contributors to the psychoanalytic study of religion: David Bakan Erik H. Erikson Heinz Kohut Julia Kristeva and D.W. Winnicott. It is the first collection of texts in the psychology of religion that is oriented more toward religious studies than toward the study of psychology. In his introduction Donald Capps points out that psychoanalysis resembles religions in the way in which its founding documents (Freud's own writings) have been closely read have evoked interpretive battles and have been reassessed and reapplied in response to changing social and cultural circumstances. He notes that just as Freud's writings on religion focus on the biblical text the majority of the authors included here do likewise showing how the Bible may be read psychoanalytically. Both Freud and his successors says Capps also reflect the high value that the Christian culture of the West has placed on painting and sculpture revealing the importance of perception and imagination to the psychoanalytic study of religion. Capps highlights the ways in which all the Freudians work intertextually with Freud's writings with the writings of other authors included in the book and with other writings of their own.

About the Author: Donald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of many other books, including Men, Religion, and Melancholia, published by Yale University Press.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Freud and Freudians on Religion : A Reader
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good