Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion: Transference and Transcendence

by James W. Jones

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The psychoanalytic study of religion has until now been dominated by a Freudian perspective that views the religious experience as a one-way transference, where the devotee projects his instinctually based childhood wishes, fears, and behaviors onto a religious construct. In this path-breaking book, James W. Jones, a clinical psychologist and professor of religion, challenges this view. Building on more recent theories in which the self is construed...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0300057849

ISBN13:9780300057843

Release Date:July 1993

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:0.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 9.0"

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Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Psychology Psychology & Counseling Religion Religion & Spirituality

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