Freud and Jung on Religion

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-14747-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Michael Palmer provides a detailed account of the theories of religion of both Freud and Jung and sets them side by side for the first time

In the first section of the text Dr Palmer analyses Freud's claim that religion is an obsessional neurosis - a psychological illness fuelled by sexual repression. The second section considers Jung's rejection of Freud's theory and his own assertion that it is the absence of religion, not its presence, which leads to neurosis.

Freud and Jung on Religion is suitable for general and specialist reader alike, as it assumes no prior knowledge of the theories of Freud or Jung and is an invaluable teaching text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Part I Sigmund Freud: psychoanalysis and religion1 INTRODUCTION 2 TOTEM AND TABOO 3 RELIGION AND ILLUSION4 FORMS OF RELIGIOUS NEUROSIS 5 A CRITICAL APPRAISAL Part II Carl Gustav Jung: analytical psychology and religion 6 INTRODUCTION 7 THE STRUCTURE OF THE PSYCHE 8 GOD AS ARCHETYPE OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS 9 GOD AND INDIVIDUATION 10 A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Palmer is Academic Tutor in the School of Theology at Westminster College, Oxford. A former Teaching Fellow at McMaster and Humboldt Fellow at Marburg, he was for many years Head of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Manchester Grammar School. Dr Palmer is the author of Paul Tillich’s Philosophy of Art (1984), Moral Problems (1991) and co-editor of the six-volumed Paul Tillich: Main Works (1988–1992).