Psychoanalysis, monotheism and morality : symposia of the Sigmund Freud Museum 2009-2011 /

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.

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Other Authors: Müller-Funk, Wolfgang, Scholz-Strasser, Inge, Westerink, Herman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Louvain, Belgium : Leuven University Press, ©2013.
Series:Figures of the unconscious ; 12.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction; Wolfgang Müller-Funk and Herman Westerink; Part I; The Forces of Monotheism; Moses' Heritage. ; Psychoanalysis between Anthropology, History and Enlightenment; Wolfgang Müller-Funk; The Jewish Tradition in Sigmund Freud's Work; Felix de Mendelssohn; L. Börne; Islam in Light of Psychoanalysis; Fethi Benslama ; Part II; Religion and its Critiques; Freud's Conception of Religion within the Context of the Modernist Critical Discourse ; Moshe Zuckermann; The Need to Believe and the Desire to Know, Today ; Julia Kristeva; Part III; Femininity and the Figure of the Father.
  • Monotheism and the "Repudiation of Femininity" Joel Whitebook; Fort!/Da! Through the Chador:; The Paradox of the Woman's Invisibility and Visibility ; Siamak Movahedi and Gohar Homayounpour; Part IV; Morality; The Two Sources of Morality in Freud's Work ; Gilles Ribault; On Moral Responsibility: A Freudian Perspective ; Herman Westerink; Pathology and Moral Courage in Freud's Early Case Histories ; Céline Surprenant; Part V; Law and Perversion; Does Perversion Need the Law? ; Sergio Benvenuto; Outlawed by Nature?
  • A Critique of Some Current Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Theories of Sexual Perversion Andreas De Block and Lode Lauwaert; Bibliography ; Notes on the Contributors.