Emotion and Spirit
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 1994
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 216
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 2007
- ISBN 13 : 9781855752030
- ISBN 10 : 1855752034
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K.N Hatton on 28/09/2005
(4 out of 5)
As a long term reader of Symington's work I found this investigation of our major religions to be well up to the standard of his previous work. Symington explores the processes which lead to an almost immediate disintegration of spiritual and psychological truths expounded by teachers such as Jesus and Buddha into primitive cults which deify the messenger and return to a primitive dependence on the teacher and on ritual rather than an absorbtion and practice of the ethics which are implicit in the message.
This position is shown to be as present in the followers of Freud and Jung as much as in those who are adherents of Christianity, Buddhsim and other world religions.