Psychoanalysis, Monotheism, and Morality
An edition of Psychoanalysis, Monotheism, and Morality (2013)
The Sigmund Freud Museum Symposia 2009-2011
By Wolfgang Müller-Funk,Inge Scholz-Strasser,Herman Westerink
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Leuven University Press
Language
eng
Pages
220
Description:
In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if and to what extent monotheism semantically and structurally fits psychoanalytic insights. Some essays augment traditional religious critiques of Freudianism with later religio-philosophical theories on, for example, femininity. Others explore the relation between psychopathology and morality from the Freudian premise that psychopathology shows in an excessive way aspects or mechanisms of the human psyche that constitute our subjectivity, and as such also our moral capacities and behaviour.