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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787791403321

Titolo

Psychoanalysis, monotheism and morality [[electronic resource] ] : symposia of the Sigmund Freud Museum 2009-2011 / / edited by Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Ingrid Scholz-Strasser, Herman Westerink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Louvain, Belgium, : Leuven University Press, c2013

ISBN

94-6166-080-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Figures of the unconscious ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

Müller-FunkWolfgang

Scholz-StrasserInge

WesterinkHerman

Disciplina

211.34

Soggetti

Monotheism

Ethics

Psychoanalysis

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.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Introduction; Wolfgang Müller-Funk and Herman Westerink; Part I; The Forces of Monotheism; Moses' Heritage. ; Psychoanalysis between Anthropology, History and Enlightenment; Wolfgang Müller-Funk; The Jewish Tradition in Sigmund Freud's Work; Felix de Mendelssohn; L. Börne; Islam in Light of Psychoanalysis; Fethi Benslama ; Part II; Religion and its Critiques; Freud's Conception of Religion within the Context of the Modernist Critical Discourse ; Moshe Zuckermann; The Need to Believe and the Desire to Know, Today ; Julia Kristeva; Part III; Femininity and the Figure of the Father

Monotheism and the "Repudiation of Femininity"  Joel Whitebook; Fort!/Da! Through the Chador:; The Paradox of the Woman's Invisibility and Visibility  ; Siamak Movahedi and Gohar Homayounpour; Part IV; Morality; The Two Sources of Morality in Freud's Work  ; Gilles Ribault; On Moral Responsibility: A Freudian Perspective  ; Herman Westerink; Pathology and Moral Courage in Freud's Early Case Histories  ; Céline Surprenant; Part V; Law and Perversion; Does Perversion Need the Law?  ; Sergio Benvenuto; Outlawed by Nature?

A Critique of Some Current Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Theories of



Sexual Perversion  Andreas De Block and Lode Lauwaert; Bibliography ; Notes on the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if and to what extent monotheism semantically and structurally fits psychoanalytic insights.