Main description:

Psychoanalysis, with Freud as its founder, has vehemently denied the value of religious belief. In this radical book, re-issued with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Jon Stokes, Neville Symington makes the case that both traditional religion and psychoanalysis are failing because they exist apart and do not incorporate each other's values. The controversial conclusion of this fascinating study is that psychoanalysis is a spirituality-in-the-world, or a mature religion, and inseparable from acts of virtue.

Contents:

Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Part One , The Nature of Primitive Religion , Mature Religion , The Judaeo-Christian Tradition , Religious Wisdom From the East , Socrates - Religious Teacher in Classical Greece , The Relation Between the Moral and the Spiritual , Towards a Definition of Religion , Part Two , Freud's Diagnosis of Religion , Meissner's Critique of Freud , The Challenge of Jung , From Causal to Moral in Psychoanalysis , The Current Relation Between Psychoanalysis and Religion , Erich Fromm's Assessment of Religion , Part Three , The Human Condition , Narcissism and the Human Condition , The Transformation of Narcissism through Psychoanalysis , Part Four , The Domain of Psychoanalysis , Conscience and the Super-Ego , Self-Knowledge, virtue and mental health , Psychoanalysis - A Spirituality , Psychoanalysis - A Spirituality in the World , Science and Religion , Conclusion