Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion: Transference and Transcendence

by James W. Jones

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking book, a professor of religion who is also a clinical psychologist challenges Freud's view of religion as one-way transference. Using examples from clinical cases, James W. Jones argues instead that religious experiences, doctrines, and practices reflect the internalized interpersonal patterns that constitute our sense of ourselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300049161
• ISBN13: 9780300049169
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.