Religion, Society, And Psychoanalysis: Readings In Contemporary Theory

by Janet L. Jacobs and Donald Capps

Book Overview

Religion clearly remains a powerful social and political force in Western society. Freudian-based theory continues to inform psychoanalytic investigations into personality development, gender relations, and traumatic disorders. Using a historical framework, this collection of new essays brings together contemporary scholarship on religion and psychoanalysis. These various yet related psychoanalytic interpretations of religious symbolism and commitment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813326486
• ISBN13: 9780813326481
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"