Freud, Religion, and the Roaring Twenties: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Secularization in the Novels of Anderson, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald

By Henry Idema

Idema brings a psychoanalytic perspective to his analysis of religion and culture. The heart of Idema's argument, following Freud, is that secularization ushered into western culture an increase of neurosis. Idema's theory of secularization is applied to each of the authors he has selected to illustrate three principal effects of the decline of religion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847676617
• ISBN13: 9780847676613
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"