Freud and Jung on religion
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 1997
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Jung and Analytical Psychology - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 2800
- ISBN 13 : 9780415147477
- ISBN 10 : 0415147476
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Provides an account of the theories of religion of Freud and Jung. The text analyzes Freud's claim that religion is an obsessional neurosis - a psychological illness fuelled by sexual repression and considers Jung's claim that it is the absence of religion, not its presence, which leads to neurosis. 238 pages.
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Michael Palmer is a former Teaching Fellow at McMaster University and Humboldt Fellow at Marburg University, and was for many years the founding Head of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at The Manchester Grammar School. Among his many other books, Routledge have also published a second series of Palmer’s Bristol lectures, the best-selling The Question of God (2001), which provides a detailed analysis of the traditional arguments for God’s existence. More recently Palmer has published three books on the philosophy of atheism: The Atheist’s Creed, The Atheist’s Primer, and Atheism for Beginners.
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