Terror and Transformation: The Ambiguity of Religion in Psychoanalytic Perspective

by James W. Jones

Book Overview

Religion has been responsible for both horrific acts against humanity and some of humanity's most sublime teachings and experiences. How is this possible? From a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, this book seeks to answer that question in terms of the psychological dynamic of idealisation.
At the heart of living religion is the idealisation of everyday objects. Such idealisations provide much of the transforming power of religious experience,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583911936
• ISBN13: 9781583911938
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"