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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... transform them in certain directions but he can no longer get rid of them . The people to whom he is in this way fixed are his parents and his brothers and sisters .... All of his later choices of friendship and love follow upon the ...
... transform them in certain directions but he can no longer get rid of them . The people to whom he is in this way fixed are his parents and his brothers and sisters .... All of his later choices of friendship and love follow upon the ...
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... transformed into his God image . Keeping in mind that most Western people either believe in , or have at least heard of , a personal God , the task seemed to be simplified by the nature of the culture in which we develop.2 On this ...
... transformed into his God image . Keeping in mind that most Western people either believe in , or have at least heard of , a personal God , the task seemed to be simplified by the nature of the culture in which we develop.2 On this ...
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... transformation that these objects had undergone during the course of the patient's life . The biog- raphy concluded at the patient's admission interview . Special attention was paid to the patient's identification with and ...
... transformation that these objects had undergone during the course of the patient's life . The biog- raphy concluded at the patient's admission interview . Special attention was paid to the patient's identification with and ...
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... transformations produced in the image by formal religious education can only be added to a representation of God that has already been formed . Religious education will not contribute essentially to the creation of the image . Twenty ...
... transformations produced in the image by formal religious education can only be added to a representation of God that has already been formed . Religious education will not contribute essentially to the creation of the image . Twenty ...
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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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