The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis
Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory
Part of Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
- Author: Suzanne R. Kirschner, Harvard University, Massachusetts
- Date Published: March 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521555609
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In this book, Suzanne Kirschner traces the origins of contemporary psychoanalysis back to the foundations of Judaeo-Christian culture, and challenges the prevailing view that modern theories of the self mark a radical break with religious and cultural tradition. Instead, she argues, they offer an account of human development which has its beginnings in biblical theology and neoplatonic mysticism. Drawing on a wide range of religious, literary, philosophical and anthropological sources, Dr Kirschner demonstrates that current Anglo-American psychoanalytic theories are but the latest version of a narrative that has been progressively secularized over the course of nearly two millennia. She displays a deep understanding of psychoanalytic theories, while at the same time raising provocative questions about their status as knowledge and as science.
Read more- Most detailed attempt yet to trace the religious sources of any theory of human development
- Focuses on most contemporary and influential theories of psychoanalysis (not on classical Freudianism)
- Neither idealises nor attempts to debunk psychoanalysis - most other books try to do one or the other
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- Date Published: March 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521555609
- length: 254 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Toward a cultural genealogy of psychoanalytic developmental psychology
2. The assenting ego: Anglo-American values in contemporary psychoanalytic developmental psychology
3. The developmental narrative: the design of psychological history
4. Theological sources of the idea of development
5. The Christian mystical narrative: Neoplatonism and Christian mysticism
6. Jacob Boehme: towards worldly mysticism
7. Romantic thought: from worldly mysticism to natural supernaturalism
8. Personal supernaturalism: the cultural genealogy of the psychoanalytic developmental narrative
Conclusion.
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