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The Other Freud Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis

By James DiCenso Copyright 1999
    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge
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    First published in 1998. The Other Freud undertakes an exciting and original analysis of Freud's major writings on religion and culture. James DiCenso argues that Freud's works on religion are unjustifiably ignored or taken for granted and demonstrates that they are rich, multifaceted texts which deserve far more attention. Using tools and concepts derived primarily from contemporary French theorists Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva, DiCenso draws an unparalleled and unprecedented portrait of the 'other' Freud. The author admirably analyses and closely examines the discrepancies in Freud's central texts on religion and addresses important issues in the fields of psychoanalytic theory, postmodern thought, cultural theory and religious studies. The Other Freud is a seminal work, free of jargon and rich with fresh insights and interpretations.

    Acknowledgments; Introduction: tensions in Freud, extensions in Lacan and Trauma, Oedipus complex, and the exigencies of subjective Formation; Traumatic experience and psychical reality; Oedipal dynamics and entry into the symbolic 2 Religion, ethics, and acculturation; Freud’s critique of religion and the latent issue of ethical Transformation; Lacan and the problem of modalities of subjectivity 3 Displacement, supplementarity, and symbolic meaning in Totem and Taboo; The myth of origins and the problem of origination; Omnipotence of thoughts and cultural reality; The sacrifice: from the real to the symbolic; 4 Moses and Monotheism: the trauma of symbolization; More originary hypotheses; Textual and psychological vicissitudes; Trauma and the return of the repressed; 5 Moses and Monotheism: the psychodynamics of Geistigkeit; The great man and the symbolic order; The realm of Geist; Drive renunciation and subjective transformation 6 Psycho-cultural inquiry from Freud to Kristeva; Issues of critique and transformation; Displacing the ego and opening to the Other; The unconscious structured like a language; Kristeva on melancholia, art, and religion; Concluding Remarks

    Biography

    James J. DiCenso is Associate Professor at the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Hermeneutics and the Disclosure of Truth.

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