Relating to God - Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism

In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur presents a clinical alternative to both the dismissal and the culturally relative endorsement of the client's religion, proposing a contemporary psychoanalytic distinction between wholesome spirituality and its symbolic and symptomatic displacements. Spirituality compatible with psychoanalysis is identified with the via negativa, "way of negating," that is found historically in selected Christian and Jewish encounters with God.

List of contents

Preface

1. Freud on Animism and Religion

2. Freud's Search for Spirituality

3. Clinical Psychoanalysis and Religion

4. Analyzing the Transference onto God

5. Interpreting Numinous Experiences

6. Mentalizing God

7. Unsaying God

8. Revelation and Prophecy

References

Index

About the author

By Dan Merkur

Product details

• Authors: Dan Merkur, Daniel Merkur
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9780765710154
• ISBN: 978-0-7657-1015-4
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: New Imago; New Imago: Series in Theoretic; New Imago
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology