Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality

by Jon Mills and Jon Mills

In this controversial book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues that God does not exist; and more provocatively, that God cannot exist as anything but an idea. Put concisely, God is a psychological creation signifying ultimate ideality. Mills argues that the idea or conception of God is the manifestation of humanity's denial and response to natural deprivation; a self-relation to an internalized idealized object, the idealization of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138195758
• ISBN13: 9781138195752
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"