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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... person's representation of God in the course of his develop- ment and on the use of this representation by the individual during the life cycle . My interest in this subject was aroused in October 1963 , at Cordoba , Argentina , under ...
... person's representation of God in the course of his develop- ment and on the use of this representation by the individual during the life cycle . My interest in this subject was aroused in October 1963 , at Cordoba , Argentina , under ...
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... person's belief or lack of belief in God . The literature on pastoral care was more promising because catechists have collected relevant observations about the reactions of children to their teach- ings and about some of the ...
... person's belief or lack of belief in God . The literature on pastoral care was more promising because catechists have collected relevant observations about the reactions of children to their teach- ings and about some of the ...
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... person who believes in him during the vicis- situdes of the life cycle . Religion is a vastly complex phenomenon which appears to defy any com- prehensive definition . Each discipline concerned with the study of religion must produce ...
... person who believes in him during the vicis- situdes of the life cycle . Religion is a vastly complex phenomenon which appears to defy any com- prehensive definition . Each discipline concerned with the study of religion must produce ...
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... person . To understand them I must accept that belief as reality to them . Any other point of view would do violence to the phenomenon studied . But as a researcher I will not make pronouncements appropriate for philosophers and ...
... person . To understand them I must accept that belief as reality to them . Any other point of view would do violence to the phenomenon studied . But as a researcher I will not make pronouncements appropriate for philosophers and ...
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... person in its particularity . Empirical studies can help us generalize some findings by statistical valida- tion ... person's God need to be personalized and specific to be understood at all . I hope that this work will stimulate my ...
... person in its particularity . Empirical studies can help us generalize some findings by statistical valida- tion ... person's God need to be personalized and specific to be understood at all . I hope that this work will stimulate my ...
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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