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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... relation existing in the secret chambers of the human heart between that God and the 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 ...
... relation existing in the secret chambers of the human heart between that God and the 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 ...
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... relation between " the father in the flesh " and God . As usual , Freud was not systematic ; he left the task of exploring the wider scope of his thinking to the reader . In presenting the Wolf Man he provided fas- cinating clinical ...
... relation between " the father in the flesh " and God . As usual , Freud was not systematic ; he left the task of exploring the wider scope of his thinking to the reader . In presenting the Wolf Man he provided fas- cinating clinical ...
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... relations with primary objects , relation to God , and the context of the present , and ( 5 ) it permits us to understand the private God of each person in its particularity . Empirical studies can help us generalize some findings by ...
... relations with primary objects , relation to God , and the context of the present , and ( 5 ) it permits us to understand the private God of each person in its particularity . Empirical studies can help us generalize some findings by ...
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... relations , as well as relationship with God . I assumed that a naive , simple approach by means of parallel questionnaires — one with questions about the parents and another with complementary questions about God— would furnish ...
... relations , as well as relationship with God . I assumed that a naive , simple approach by means of parallel questionnaires — one with questions about the parents and another with complementary questions about God— would furnish ...
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... relations with God , particularly their wishes to be with God in an afterlife . I hoped that answers to such a ... relation with his God and in his representation of God , as well as whatever fulfillment or disillusionment he had ...
... relations with God , particularly their wishes to be with God in an afterlife . I hoped that answers to such a ... relation with his God and in his representation of God , as well as whatever fulfillment or disillusionment he had ...
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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