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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789656503321

Autore

Symington Neville

Titolo

The blind man sees : Freud's awakening and other essays / / Neville Symington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-92020-2

0-429-90597-1

0-429-48120-9

1-283-24910-3

9786613249104

1-84940-455-0

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/5

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: London: Karnac, 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Freud's awakening; CHAPTER TWO: Was Freud influenced by Brentano?; CHAPTER THREE: An exegesis of conscience in the works of Freud; CHAPTER FOUR: Freud's truth; CHAPTER FIVE: The relation between the deterministand the religious model of the mind; CHAPTER SIX: The unconscious as an amoral construction; CHAPTER SEVEN: Religion and science in psychoanalysis; CHAPTER EIGHT: The nature of reality; CHAPTER NINE: Religion and consciousness; CHAPTER TEN: The true god and the false god; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Natural spirituality

CHAPTER TWELVE: An enquiry into the concepts of soul and psycheCHAPTER THIRTEEN: Religion and spirituality; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Is psychoanalysis a religion?; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The murder of Laius; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Psychoanalysis and human freedom; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Failure of internalization in modern culture; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Anti-Semitism: another perspective; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion.



Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientific religion with Freud as the leader of the movement.