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Christ and Freud (RLE: Freud) - A Study of Religious Experience and Observance (Paperback)
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Christ and Freud (RLE: Freud) - A Study of Religious Experience and Observance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Freud
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Originally published in 1959, this book is primarily concerned with
the question of psychiatric factors in religion, and, conversely,
with that of religious factors in psychiatry. It rejects the
Freudian theory that religion is a form of obsessional neurosis.
Though this latter hypothesis may explain many of the phenomena of
religious observance, it cannot explain the reality of religious
experience. Dr Guirdham believes that orthodox Christianity is a
perversion of the psychologically irrefutable teaching of Christ
and that its conception of God as a supreme being endowed with
supreme power, its teaching on the resurrection, and its
contamination with a sense of guilt, are especially conducive to
psychiatric disorder. He shows how theology may actually be
inimical to religious experience and how faith differs from belief
and is a response of the whole man. The book explains also the
psychological origins of clericalism and demonstrates the role
played by the latter in stifling religious experience.
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