Donald Capps

Freud and Freudians on Religion: A Reader Donald Capps

Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index; Avail. in cloth @ $40.00Publisher Marketing: This book presents selections from Freud's writings on religion and from the work of five more recent contributors to the psychoanalytic study of religion: David Bakan, Erik H. Erikson, Heinz Kohut, Julia Kristeva, and D. W. Winnicott. It is the first collection of texts in the psychology of religion that is oriented more toward religious studies than toward the study of psychology. In his introduction, Donald Capps points out that psychoanalysis resembles religions in the way in which its founding documents (Freud's own writings) have been closely read, have evoked interpretive battles, and have been reassessed and reapplied in response to changing social and cultural circumstances. He notes that just as Freud's writings on religion focus on the biblical text, the majority of the authors included here do likewise, showing how the Bible may be read psychoanalytically. Both Freud and his successors, says Capps, also reflect the high value that the Christian culture of the West has placed on painting and sculpture, revealing the importance of perception and imagination to the psychoanalytic study of religion. Capps highlights the ways in which all the Freudians work intertextually wi Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 03/12/2001 pg. 82 (EAN 9780300082012, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 03/12/2001 pg. 82 (EAN 9780300081862, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 03/11/2001 (EAN 9780300081862, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Capps, Donald Donald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology (Emeritus) and Adjunct Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Striking Out: The Religious Journey of Teenage Boys (Cascade Books, 2011) and At Home in the World: A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art (Cascade Books, 2013). He is coauthor with Nathan Carlin of Living in Limbo: Life in the Midst of Uncertainty (Cascade Books, 2010).