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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786376303321

Titolo

Psychoanalysis and theism [[electronic resource] ] : critical reflections on the Grünbaum thesis / / edited by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham [Md.], : Jason Aronson, 2010

ISBN

1-283-68812-3

1-4617-3096-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Beit-HallahmiBenjamin

Disciplina

201/.6150195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and religion

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

Psychoanalysis and theism / Adolf Grünbaum -- A problem for Freud's disjunctive argument / David Livingston Smith -- The psychoanalysis of religion and the dissolution of epistemic certitude / Jerry S. Piven -- Psychoanalytic theories of religion and the "Catholic problem" / Michael P. Carroll -- Freud, Jewish universalism, and the critique of religion / Carlo Strenger -- Interpreting three religious constructs / Harriet Lutzky -- Another epistemic evaluation of Freud's Oedipal theory religion / Ralph W. Hood, Jr. -- Mapping the imagination : heroes, gods, and Oedipal triumphs / Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi.

Sommario/riassunto

Psychoanalysis and Theism starts with a critique of psychoanalysis and its application to religion which, surprisingly, ends up expressing enthusiastic support for some classical psychoanalytic ideas. Following this essay by Adolf Grünbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers of science, nine senior scholars offer their own critical reflections on Freud's work and its hidden motives, on the potential of psychoanalytic ideas for the study of religion, and on the interpretation of the Virgin Birth and other doctrines