Emotion and spirit
Subtitle: questioning the claims of psychoanalysis and religion
By: Neville Symington.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and religion.; Psychology, Religious.
Other titles: Emotion & spirit
Description: Psychoanalysis, with Freud as its founder, has vehemently denied the value of religious belief. In this radical book, Neville Symington makes the case that both traditional religion and psychoanalysis are failing because they exist apart and do not incorporate each other's value. Religion needs psychoanalysis so that it can become relevant to people's emotional lives and their most intimate relationships.

Psychoanalysis needs religion so that it can contain those core spiritual values which give life meaning. But for a fertile relationship both will need to relinquish excess baggage in the form of creeds, dogma and rituals which only serve to obscure the deeper values which both are attempting to express.

. The controversial conclusion of this fascinating study is that psychoanalysis is a spirituality-in-the-world, or a mature religion, and inseparable from acts of virtue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.