Psychoanalysis, Monotheism, and Morality
Subtitle: The Sigmund Freud Museum Symposia 2009-2011
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789058679352
Subjects: Monotheism; Psychoanalysis; Moral conditions
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.