Psychoanalysis, monotheism and morality : the Sigmund Freud Museum symposia 2009-2011 /
Wolfgang Müller-Funk ; Inge Scholz-Strasser ; Herman Westerink.
- Leuven : Leuven University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (220 pages)
- Figures of the Unconscious ; 12 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface; Introduction; Wolfgang Müller-Funk and Herman Westerink; Part I; The Forces of Monotheism; Moses' Heritage. ; Psychoanalysis between Anthropology, History and Enlightenment; Wolfgang Müller-Funk; The Jewish Tradition in Sigmund Freud's Work; Felix de Mendelssohn; L. Börne; Islam in Light of Psychoanalysis; Fethi Benslama ; Part II; Religion and its Critiques; Freud's Conception of Religion within the Context of the Modernist Critical Discourse ; Moshe Zuckermann; The Need to Believe and the Desire to Know, Today ; Julia Kristeva; Part III; Femininity and the Figure of the Father Monotheism and the "Repudiation of Femininity" Joel Whitebook; Fort!/Da! Through the Chador:; The Paradox of the Woman's Invisibility and Visibility ; Siamak Movahedi and Gohar Homayounpour; Part IV; Morality; The Two Sources of Morality in Freud's Work ; Gilles Ribault; On Moral Responsibility: A Freudian Perspective ; Herman Westerink; Pathology and Moral Courage in Freud's Early Case Histories ; Céline Surprenant; Part V; Law and Perversion; Does Perversion Need the Law? ; Sergio Benvenuto; Outlawed by Nature? A Critique of Some Current Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Theories of Sexual Perversion Andreas De Block and Lode Lauwaert; Bibliography ; Notes on the Contributors
In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if and to what extent monotheism semantically and structurally fits psychoanalytic insights. Some essays augment traditional religious critiques of Freudianism with later religio-philosophical theories on, for example, femininity. Others explore the relation between psychopathology and morality from the Freudian premise that psychopathology shows in an excessive way aspects or mechanisms of the human psyche that constitute our subjectivity, and as such also our moral capacities and behaviour.