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Why did Freud reject God? : a psychodynamic interpretation

Title: Why did Freud reject God? : a psychodynamic interpretation / Ana-María Rizzuto.
Author: Rizzuto, Ana-Maria.
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.

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Description

xxi, 297 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"In this book a widely recognized authority on religion and psychoanalysis takes a fascinating journey into Freud's past to examine the roots of his atheism. Dr. Ana-Maria Rizzuto reviews and reorganizes data about Freud's development and life circumstances to provide a psychodynamic interpretation of his rejection of God. She argues that Freud's early life and family relationships made it psychically impossible for him to believe in a provident and caring divine being."--BOOK JACKET. "The book brings to light critical aspects of Freud's early and late object relations and their lasting impact on his rejection of God."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

collective biographies.
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Biographies.
Biography

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-280) and index.

Contents

1. Freud's compulsion to collect antiquities -- 2. Family history -- 3. Jakob and the "castastrophe" -- 4. Jakob, man and father -- 5. The dedication and Freud's response -- 6. Freud's childhood impressions from the Philippson Bible -- 7. The Philippson Bible and Freud's antiquities collection -- 8. Freud's religious evolution -- 9. Freud's theories about religion -- 10. Amalie Nathansohn Freud -- 11. Amalie Freud, nature, God, death -- 12. Why did Freud reject God? A psychodynamic interpretation.

ISBN

0300075251
9780300075250

LCCN

97049877

OCLC

ocm38047942
38047942
SCSB-9551736

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library