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. |
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... individual during the life cycle . My interest in this subject was aroused in October 1963 , at Cordoba , Argentina , under unusual circumstances . I was asked to teach a course for the students of the Pontifical Seminary on " the ...
... individual during the life cycle . My interest in this subject was aroused in October 1963 , at Cordoba , Argentina , under unusual circumstances . I was asked to teach a course for the students of the Pontifical Seminary on " the ...
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... individual's life meant missing an important and relevant piece of information about the patient's developmental history and his private elaborations ( conscious and unconscious ) of parental imagos . I felt that the patients had taught ...
... individual's life meant missing an important and relevant piece of information about the patient's developmental history and his private elaborations ( conscious and unconscious ) of parental imagos . I felt that the patients had taught ...
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... individual's private representation of God and its subsequent elaborations . It is also a study of the relation existing in the secret chambers of the human heart between that God and the person who believes in him during the vicis ...
... individual's private representation of God and its subsequent elaborations . It is also a study of the relation existing in the secret chambers of the human heart between that God and the person who believes in him during the vicis ...
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... individual's relation to the father , especially with regard to reso- lution of the Oedipus complex , and the elaboration of the idea of God . After Freud , however , nobody undertook a study of that correlation or its implica- tions ...
... individual's relation to the father , especially with regard to reso- lution of the Oedipus complex , and the elaboration of the idea of God . After Freud , however , nobody undertook a study of that correlation or its implica- tions ...
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... individual's emotional attitudes to other people , which are of such extreme importance to his later behavior , are already established at an unexpectedly early age . The nature and quality of the human child's relations to people of ...
... individual's emotional attitudes to other people , which are of such extreme importance to his later behavior , are already established at an unexpectedly early age . The nature and quality of the human child's relations to people of ...
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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