Changing the Scientific Study of Religion: Beyond Freud? Theoretical, Empirical and Clinical Studies from Psychoanalytic Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Belzen, Jacob A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Humanities.; Philosophy, modern.; Religion (General).; Humanities / Arts.; Religious Studies.; Modern Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2540-1

The psychoanalytic approach to religion has changed radically during the course of the twentieth century. In both clinical and theoretical work in psychoanalysis, developments have taken place that frequently are not noted by persons who assume that all that can be said has been said by Freud. The s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• After Freud: beyond Freud? On progress in the psychoanalytic psychology of religion
• Part I: Changes in psychoanalytic research on religiosity. Clinical and theoretical studies. One hundred years after Freud declared that religion was a universal obsessional neurosis. Religious Conflicts in Psychoanalysis: A Case Study. Religious delusion in psychosis and hysteria. Psychoanalytic contributions on the mystical. The Adoration of the Crucified. Lessons for psychoanalysis
• Part II: Changes in the scientific research on religion. Empirical and theoretical studies. The psychoanalytic study of myth since Freud: Pursuing the dream. Psychoanalysis meets Buddhism: The development of a dialogue. Hinduism and Psychoanalysis: Encounters at the Crossroads of Psyche, Culture, and the Religious. The paternal metaphor revisited in post-Freudian French psychoanalytic anthropology of religion. Religious subjectivity: Psychoanalytic and philosophical inquiries. Re-reading Freuds Mourning and Melancholia: Julia Kristeva and the psychoanalytic study of religion
• Notes on Contributors. Index of Names.