Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience

by W. Meissner

Book Overview

There has been for a long time a powerful opposition between psychoanalysis and religious thinking, both because of the anti-religious attitudes and writings of Sigmund Freud and because of the hostility of theologians to Freud. In this provocative book, W.W. Meissner attempts to bring about a rapprochement between the two fields, by examining Freud's views on religion in close detail, exploring the dialectical relationship between psychoanalysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300037511
• ISBN13: 9780300037517
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"