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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453508803321

Autore

Merkur Daniel

Titolo

Relating to God : clinical psychoanalysis, spirituality, and theism / / Dan Merkur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Jason Aronson, , 2013

ISBN

0-7657-1016-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

New Imago

Disciplina

150.19/5

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and religion

Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

RELATING TO GOD; Contents; Preface; 1. Freud on Animism and Religion; 2. Freud's Search for Spirituality; 3. Clinical Psychoanalysis and Religion; 4. Analyzing the Transference onto God; 5. Interpreting Numinous Experiences; 6. Mentalizing God; 7. Unsaying God; 8. Revelation and Prophecy; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur presents a clinical alternative to both the dismissal and the culturally relative endorsement of the client's religion, proposing a contemporary psychoanalytic distinction between wholesome spirituality and its symbolic and symptomatic displacements. Spirituality compatible with psychoanalysis is identified with the via negativa, "way of negating," that is found hi