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The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis: Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory

By Suzanne R. Kirschner

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521555604, 9780521555609, 0521444012, 9780521444019
LCC
BF173 .K437 1996
Google Books ID
F6Lhvak_NBkC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6916188 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Edition
1
Pages
257\257
Topic
Psychology
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Психологические дисциплины;Психотерапия;Психоанали

Description

This book considers the cultural and religious sources of contemporary psychoanalytic theories of the development of the self, and demonstrates that they are distinctively Western cultural constructions that tell a story in terms of a narrative pattern derived from biblical and Neoplatonic sources. Thus, religious themes and values still influence how modern psychologists make sense of the human condition, and Dr. Kirschner raises provocative questions about the status of psychoanalytic theories as knowledge and as science.

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