This Incredible Need to Believe

by Julia Kristeva

Book Overview

"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."

So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skillfully upends our entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought and work of a renowned psychoanalyst and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231147856
• ISBN13: 9780231147859
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher