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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968392903321

Autore

Palmer Michael <1945->

Titolo

Freud and Jung on religion / / Michael Palmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-75491-4

0-415-14747-6

9786610031856

1-134-75492-2

1-280-03185-9

0-203-44080-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 238 p. ) : ports

Disciplina

200/.1/9

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-228) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword. Part I Sigmund Freud: psychoanalysis and religion.. Introduction. Totem and Taboo. Religion and Illusion. Forms of Religious Neurosis. A Critical Appraisal. Part II Introduction. The Structure of the Psyche. God as Archetype of the Collective Unconscious. God and Individuation. A Critical Appraisal.

Sommario/riassunto

Palmer analyses Freud's claim that religion is an obsessional neurosis, considers Jung's rejection of Freud's theory, and looks at Jung's assertion that it is the absence of religion, not its presence, which leads to neurosis.