1st Edition
The Blind Man Sees Freud's Awakening and Other Essays
By Neville Symington
Copyright 2004
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years, and focus in the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. The author argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientific religion with Freud as the leader of the movement. He examines the various stages of the journey made by a religious leader from "blindness" to "founding an institution" and finds counterparts... Read more
Introduction , Freud's awakening , Was Freud influenced by Brentano? , An exegesis of conscience in the works of Freud , Freud's truth , The relation between the determinist and the religious model of the mind , The unconscious as an amoral construction , Religion and science in psychoanalysis , The nature of reality , Religion and consciousness , The true god and the false god , Natural spirituality , An enquiry into the concepts of soul and psyche , Religion and spirituality , Is psychoanalysis a religion? , The murder of Laius , Psychoanalysis and human freedom , Failure of internalization in modern culture , Anti-Semitism: another perspective
Biography
Neville Symington
