Freud and Freudians on Religion: A Reader

Title: Freud and Freudians on Religion: A Reader Author: Donald Capps ISBN: 9780300082012 Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS Published: 2001 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: First Edition Paperback Number of Pages: 365 Publisher Description: This book presents selections from Freud's writings on religion and from the work of five more recent contributors to the psychoanalytic study of religion: David Bakan, Erik H. Erikson, Heinz Kohut, Julia Kristeva, and D.W. Winnicott. It is the first collection of texts in the psychology of religion that is oriented more toward religious studies than toward the study of psychology. <p/>In his introduction, Donald Capps points out that psychoanalysis resembles religions in the way in which its founding documents (Freud's own writings) have been closely read, have evoked interpretive battles, and have been reassessed and reapplied in response to changing social and cultural circumstances. He notes that just as Freud's writings on rel