Belzen Changing the Scientific Study of Religion: Beyond Freud?

Theoretical, Empirical and Clinical Studies from Psychoanalytic Perspectives
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-90-481-2540-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 319 Seiten

The psychoanalytic approach to religion has changed radically during the course of the twentieth century. In both clinical and theoretical work in psychoanalysis, developments have taken place that frequently are not noted by persons who assume that all that can be said has been said by Freud. The study of religious phenomena, persons, events and traditions has always been a substantial part of applied psychoanalysis and here also major developments have taken place. It is no exaggeration to state that the scientific study of religion has been revolutionized by the integration of psychological perspectives, including the field of psychoanalysis. This volume differs from other recent publications on the topic of psychoanalysis and religion in drawing upon the entire field of psychoanalytic involvement with religion. It is interdisciplinary in approach and unlike other books on the topic brings together an exceptional combination of theoretical, empirical and clinical studies. No other book provides integrated examples of all three types of work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belzen, Jacob A. v. van

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Introduction;7
3;Past Freud – Beyond Freud?;8
4;On Progress in the Psychoanalytic Psychology of Religion;8
4.1;Freud on Religion;9
4.2;The Range of the Psychological Perspective;14
4.3;The Psychoanalytic Approaches Made More Precise;19
4.4;Unexpected Corroboration;21
4.5;Proliferation of Psychoanalytic Viewpoints;24
4.6;Before Closing;26
4.7;Finally – A Preview;29
4.8;References;34
5;Part I Changes in Psychoanalytic Research on Religiosity: Clinical and Theoretical Studies;37
5.1;One Hundred Years After Freud Declared That Religion Was a Universal Obsessional Neurosis;38
5.1.1;Psychoanalysis and Religion After Freud;42
5.1.2;Clinical Presentation;47
5.1.3;Commentary;55
5.1.4;References;57
5.2;Religious Conflicts in Psychoanalysis – A Case Study;59
5.2.1;The Analysand;61
5.2.2;The Analysis;64
5.2.3;Discussion;82
5.2.4;References;84
5.3;Religious Delusion in Psychosis and Hysteria;86
5.3.1;Introduction;86
5.3.2;Schreber’s Delusion – Paradigm of a Psychotic Religious Delusion;89
5.3.3;The Hysterical Religious Delusion;93
5.3.4;Theoretical and Clinical Framework;97
5.3.5;The Comparison Between the Psychotic Religious Delusion (Schreber) and the Hysterical Religious Delusion (The Case of Marie);103
5.3.6;References;109
5.4;Psychoanalytic Contributions on the Mystical;111
5.4.1;Mystical Experience as a Transient Anomaly;113
5.4.2;The Mystical as a Developmental Line;115
5.4.3;Otto Rank;115
5.4.4;Erich Fromm;116
5.4.5;Marion Milner;118
5.4.6;D. W.Winnicott;118
5.4.7;Anton Ehrenzweig;119
5.4.8;More onWinnicott;119
5.4.9;Heinz Kohut;121
5.4.10;HansW. Loewald;121
5.4.11;Clinical Psychoanalysis as a Two-Person Practice of Mysticism;123
5.4.12;Wilfred R. Bion;123
5.4.13;James S. Grotstein;126
5.4.14;Neville Symington;127
5.4.15;Michael Eigen;129
5.4.16;Concluding Reflections;131
5.4.17;References;134
5.5;The Adoration of the Crucified;141
5.5.1;Freud’s Narrow-Minded Vision of Religion;143
5.5.2;The Ecstatic ‘Jouissance’ in the Adoration of the Crucified;146
5.5.3;Inserting the Masochistic Prayer in a Freudian Inspired View on Sublimation;149
5.5.4;Investigating Freud’s Failure;154
5.5.5;References;159
6;Part II Changes in the Scientific Research on Religion: Empirical and Theoretical Studies;160
6.1;The Psychoanalytic Study of Myth Since Freud;161
6.1.1;The Beginning;162
6.1.2;The Scholarly Study of Myth – Disciplinary Cocoons and Interpretive Enclaves;163
6.1.3;The Core Divide – Freud Versus Jung;163
6.1.4;Classical Freudians and Ego Psychology;165
6.1.5;Medusa as Good Mother – The Object Relations Tradition and Myth;167
6.1.6;Self-Limiting Structural Constraints;168
6.1.7;Leaders Without Followers;170
6.1.8;A Final Puzzle;171
6.1.9;Jung and Campbell – Psychic Improvement Through Osmosis;171
6.1.10;Unchurched Mysticism for Moderns;174
6.1.11;Whither the Psychoanalytic Study of Myth?;175
6.1.12;Bibliography;175
6.2;Psychoanalysis Meets Buddhism;177
6.2.1;1880–1944 – Initial Encounters;179
6.2.2;1944–1970 – The Zen Files;188
6.2.3;1970–2007 – The Flowering of Dialogue;196
6.2.4;Bibliography;205
6.3;Hinduism and Psychoanalysis;208
6.3.1;Dimensions of the Encounter;208
6.3.2;Foundational Studies: Ganesha and the Castrated Hindu Son;210
6.4;Indigenizing Studies: Hindu Families/Hindu Selves;222
6.4.1;Concluding Thoughts;235
6.4.2;References;236
6.5;The Paternal Metaphor Revisitedin Post-Freudian French ReligiousPsychoanalytic Anthropology.;239
6.5.1;Freud Among Francophone Africanists;240
6.5.2;The Yaka Religious Sensibility for theWeave of Things and the Augural;249
6.5.3;The Agnatic Ancestors, Matricentred Filiation and the Maternal Uncle;253
6.5.4;Transworldly Phallogocentric Symbolisation and Matrixial Signifiance;264
6.5.5;References;267
6.6;Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiries into Religious Subjectivity;270
6.6.1;The Question of the Subject;270
6.6.2;Some Relevant Historical Background;272
6.6.3;Psychoanalytic Interventions;278
6.6.4;Contemporary Extrapolations;282
6.6.5;Conclusions;288
6.6.6;References;288
6.7;Julia Kristeva and the Psychoanalytic Study of Religion;290
6.7.1;Life, Career, and Theory;291
6.7.2;Mourning;298
6.7.3;Melancholia;299
6.7.4;References;305
7;Index;307