Psychoanalysts since Sigmund Freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. Freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while Slavoj Žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. In this essay, I dig into these theories to uncover traces of Lutheran interpretations of Paul’s words on the Jewish l...

psychoanalysts since sigmund freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while slavoj žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. in this essay, i dig into these theories to uncover traces of lutheran interpretations of paul’s words on the jewish l...

Professor Flugel's untimely death has recently made us all sad : and the republication of this book (which first appeared in 1945) emphasises our loss anew. Although the subtitle is "a psychoanalytic study" it will appeal to the general reader, and indeed is a most skilful attempt to integrate the theories of the various psychoanalytic schools into a comprehensive?and, remarkably, comprehensibl...

There has now been more than a hundred years of psychoanalytic theorizing on the development of personality, and there are consequently a variety of different psychodynamic models. Despite sharing common origins, each of these theories has a different emphasis. Some theorists have sought to adapt existing ideas to remain within the psychoanalytic approach, while others have redefined them as di...

It is self-evident, I suppose, that I am conspicuously taking exception to the all-tao-prevalent idea that things are pretty well fixed in the Jesuitical first seven years. This idea has constituted one of the greatest problems for some anthropologists who have tried to translate psychiatric thought into anthropologically useful ideas. The anthropologists have noised at them from all sides the ...