Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion: Transference and Transcendence

by James W. Jones

Book Overview

The psychoanalytic study of religion has until now been dominated by a Freudian perspective that views the religious experience as a one-way transference, where the devotee projects his instinctually based childhood wishes, fears, and behaviors onto a religious construct. In this path-breaking book, James W. Jones, a clinical psychologist and professor of religion, challenges this view. Building on more recent theories in which the self is construed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300057849
• ISBN13: 9780300057843
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 9.0"