Research Catalog

Title

Freud on femininity and faith / Judith Van Herik.

Author

Van Herik, Judith.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1982.

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Details

Description

xiii, 216 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Renunciation (Philosophy)
• Self-realization
• Masculinity
• Femininity
• Psychoanalysis and religion
• Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 201-207.

Contents

Part one: body, mind, and culture. -- 1. The problem and its context. Freud as a critical theorist of culture; the problem. -- 2. Excursus on method. Criticism; gender asymmetry. -- 3. Biology, psychology, and culture in psychoanalysis. biology and psychology; psychology and culture. -- Part two: renunciation and masculinity. -- 4. The value of renunciation: Freud's moral economy. Wish and reality; primary and secondary processes; narcissism and object love. -- 5. Science and civilization as renunciation. science and religion; stages of civilization and patriarchal origins; renunciatory morality and mental health. -- 6. Masculinity as a renunciation. Paternal etriology and the genesis of masculinity; the rise and decline f Oedipus; renunciation, masculinity, and culture. -- Part Three: fulfillment and femininity. -- 7. Sex and gender in Freud. femininity as fulfillment; the need for a concept of gender; Freud's need for a theory of gender. -- 8. Femininity and the father: asymmetrical genetics. the prehistory of women; Oedipus comes to stay; asymmetry and the critique of femininity. -- Part four: religion as renunciation and fulfillment. -- 9. Freud's psychology of religion. different religious psychologies; the psychological reversal of religion. -- 10. Fulfillment without future: the future of an illusion. mental wealth; the father's protection; consequences of illusion. -- 11. Renunciations in the past: Moses' monotheism. polytheism and monotheism; the law-giving father; consequences of monotheism; the father returns: masculine genetics. -- 12. Gender, fathers and God: conclusions. gender and the uses of God; integration and summary; implications.

ISBN

• 0520043685
• 9780520043688
• 0520053338
• 9780520053335

LCCN

81003413

OCLC

• ocm07460081
• 7460081
• SCSB-624894

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library