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Terror and transformation : the ambiguity of religion in psychoanalytic perspective /
Religion has been responsible for both horrific acts against humanity and some of humanity's most sublime teachings and experiences. How is this possible? From a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, this book seeks to answer that question in terms of the psychological dynamic of idealisatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Brunner-Routledge,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Religion has been responsible for both horrific acts against humanity and some of humanity's most sublime teachings and experiences. How is this possible? From a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, this book seeks to answer that question in terms of the psychological dynamic of idealisation. At the heart of living religion is the idealisation of everyday objects. Such idealisations provide much of the transforming power of religious experience, which is one of the positive contributions of religion to the psychological life. However, idealisation can also lead to religious fanaticism w. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (130 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317763031 1317763033 9781315800608 1315800608 |