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- integrates contemporary science, philosophy, and psychoanalysis -
first book on the market to discuss more than one area of
contemporary science in relation to psychoanalysis
- integrates contemporary science, philosophy, and psychoanalysis -
first book on the market to discuss more than one area of
contemporary science in relation to psychoanalysis
Ever since Freud put religion on the couch in "The Future of an
Illusion," there has been an uneasy peace, with occasional
skirmishes, between these two great disciplines of subjectivity. As
prime meaning givers, God and the unconscious have vied for
supremacy in our thinking about ourselves, especially our thinking
about our human nature, our moral stature, and our destiny. Freud,
in his bold manner, found projection, fear, and denial to be the
wellspring of religion's domination over man. In analogous fashion,
those giving primacy to the soul over the unconscious have long
dismissed psychoanalysis as mechanistic, reductionistic, and hence
inadequate to the examination of spirituality. "Soul on the Couch
"is premised on the belief that discourse about the soul and
discourse from the couch can inform, and not simply ignore, one
another. It brings together scholars and psychoanalysts at the
forefront of an interdisciplinary dialogue that is vitally
important to the growth of both disciplines. Theiressays are not
only models of reflective inquiry; they also illuminate the
syntheses that emerge when analysts and scholars of religion bridge
the gap that has long separated them and speak to one another.
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