Emotion and Spirit

by Symington, Neville; Stokes, Jon

• ISBN13: 9781855752030
• ISBN10: 1855752034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientiic religion with Freud as the leader of the movement.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Foreword	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
PART ONE
The nature of primitive religion	7	(7)
Mature religion	14	(8)
The Judaeo--Christian tradition	22	(6)
Religious wisdom from the East	28	(9)
Socrates -- religious teacher in classical Greece	37	(9)
The relation between the moral and the spiritual	46	(3)
Towards a definition of religion	49	(8)
PART TWO
Freud's diagnosis of religion	57	(10)
Meissner's critique of Freud	67	(10)
The challenge of Jung	77	(7)
From causal to moral in psychoanalysis	84	(5)
The current relation between psychoanalysis and religion	89	(8)
Erich Fromm's assessment of religion	97	(8)
PART THREE
The human condition	105	(10)
Narcissism and the human condition	115	(13)
The transformation of narcissism through psychoanalysis	128	(13)
PART FOUR
The domain of psychoanalysis	141	(13)
Conscience and the super-ego	154	(10)
Self-knowledge, virtue and mental health	164	(7)
Psychoanalysis -- a spirituality	171	(8)
Psychoanalysis -- a spirituality in the world	179	(7)
Science and religion	186	(6)
Conclusion	192	(1)
Index	193