Birth of the Living God: A Psychoanalytic StudyUtilizing both clinical material based on the life histories of twenty patients and theoretical insights from the works of Freud, Erikson, Fairbairn, and Winnicott, Ana-Maria Rizzuto examines the origin, development, and use of our God images. Whereas Freud postulated that belief in God is based on a child's idea of his father, Rizzuto argues that the God representation draws from a variety of sources and is a major element in the fabric of one's view of self, others, and the world. |
Contents
Freud | 13 |
Beyond Freud | 41 |
The Representations of Objects and Human Psychic Functionings | 54 |
Introduction to the Clinical Research | 87 |
A God without Whiskers | 93 |
A God in the Mirror | 109 |
God the Enigma | 130 |
God My Enemy | 149 |
Conclusions | 177 |
Epilogue | 212 |
Appendix | 213 |
Notes | 221 |
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