Freud and Freudians on Religion: A ReaderDonald Capps 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sigmund Freud | 9 |
Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices | 17 |
From Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory | 25 |
The Moses of Michelangelo | 32 |
A SeventeenthCentury Demonological | 40 |
From The Future of an Illusion | 51 |
CHAPTER 6 | 58 |
The Galilean Sayings and the Sense of | 193 |
Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena | 211 |
Transitional Phenomena in Religion | 220 |
The Use of an Object and Relating Through | 226 |
Heinz Kohut | 241 |
The Disorders of the Self and Their Treatment | 249 |
Forms and Transformations of Narcissism | 264 |
From The Restoration of the Self | 273 |
From Moses and Monotheism | 72 |
David Bakan | 85 |
From The Duality of Human Existence | 94 |
Sacrifice and the Book of | 102 |
PART III | 121 |
Reflections on Dr Borgs Life Cycle | 129 |
From Young Man Luther | 164 |
Ritualization in Everyday Life | 178 |
Shared Visions | 184 |
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