Psychoanalysis and religion

Lecuit, Jean-Baptiste, « Die Theologie der Beziehung zwischen Gott und Mensch im Licht der Psychoanalyse (1/2) », Theologie der Gegenwart, 55/1 (2012) 41-52

by Jean-Baptiste Lecuit

La mystique, entre régression et passion sublimatoire

by Jean-Baptiste Lecuit

(forthcoming) A case study of primary process language and body boundary imagery in discourses of religious-mystical and psychotic altered states of consciousness

by Laura Cariola

Empirical Text and Cultural Research

Religious-mystical and psychotic altered states of consciousness (ASC) are assumed to share common phenomenological... more Religious-mystical and psychotic altered states of consciousness (ASC) are assumed to share common phenomenological and psychobiological features, including changes in body boundary awareness. This study aimed to assess the frequency and strength of associations between body boundary imagery and primary process language in the discourses of mystical and psychotic-mystical ASC. The mystical discourse examined here is Saint Teresa of Avila’s (1567) mystical writing "The Way of Perfection”, and the psychotic discourse is Daniel Paul Schreber’s (1903) autobiographical writing “Memoirs of My Nervous Illness”. The mystical text differs from the psychotic text in the frequency of primary process language and penetration imagery. Positive associations were also found between primary process language and penetration imagery, and barrier and penetration imagery, whereas the psychotic text yielded a positive association between barrier and penetration imagery only.

Jean Wirth, L'image à la fin du Moyen Age, 2011 Compte rendu / Book review

by Giulia Puma

La somme sur l’iconographie du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle, publiée entre 1898 et 1932 par Emile Mâle, demeurait inégalée... more La somme sur l’iconographie du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle, publiée entre 1898 et 1932 par Emile Mâle, demeurait inégalée jusqu’à ce que Jean Wirth entreprenne d’écrire sa propre synthèse sur l’image médiévale en trois volets. Après L’image à l’époque romane (1999), puis gothique (2008) voici le volume sur la fin du Moyen Âge. Jean Wirth y effectue une véritable mise à jour de la bibliographie sur l’image médiévale du XXe siècle, tous courants et pays confondus. Plus important encore, et fait inédit, l'auteur nous propose ce qu'il appelle une “mythologie chrétienne”, une explication rationalisée des principaux enjeux théologiques du christianisme, selon une démarche parallèle à celle de Freud avec la mythologie grecque. Son étude ne néglige aucun grand thème iconographique de la période et explore les deux sujets centraux que sont la Vierge à l’Enfant et le crucifix. Son livre s'achève avec une analyse brillante et fouillée de la rupture brutale que constitue la destruction organisée et volontaire des images au début du XVIe siècle dans les territoires réformés, entérinant la séparation entre l’art des collectionneurs et la production d’images pieuses.

"Saintliness"

by Juliana Ossa

Based on The Varieties of Religious Experience, a book by WIlliam James (1902)

the psychologist

by Ayla Michelle Demir

the psychologist, vol. 25 no. 1 january 2012
The British Psychological Society more the psychologist, vol. 25 no. 1 january 2012
The British Psychological Society www.bps.org.uk www.thepsychologist.org.uk



The Impossible Professions

"Do you believe in The Unconcious?"

Dr. Prof. Jacques Alain-Miller, Lacanian Psychoanalyst/Scholar
Translator/General Editor of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
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How Psychoanalysis 'Relates' to Neuro Science and Psychiatry

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Dr. Prof. Peter Fonagy, The British Psychoanalytical Society, UCL Psychoanalysis Unit and the Anna Freud Centre.



References

Freud Museum http://www.freud.org.uk
Anna Freud Centre http://www.annafreud.org
The British Psychological Society http://www.bps.org.uk
UCL Psychoanalysis Unit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis
The Institute of Psychoanalysis http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk
British Psychoanalytic Council http://www.psychoanalytic-council.org
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis http://www.the-site.org.uk
Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) http://www.cfar.org.uk
London Society of the New Lacanian School http://www.londonsociety-nls.org.uk
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust http://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk

The Shaping of New Testament Narrative and Salvation Teachings by Painful Childhood Experience

by Benjamin Abelow

Archive for the Psychology of Religion 33 (2011) 1-54

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This article considers the influence of childhood corporal punishment, abandonment, and neglect on the development and... more This article considers the influence of childhood corporal punishment, abandonment, and neglect on the development and reception of seminal New Testament teachings. Two related but distinct propositions are argued. First, that widespread patterns of painful childhood experience provided a thematic template that deeply shaped the New Testament during its formative period. Second, that this thematic shaping has contributed, on an individual level, to subjective experiences of faith and, on a cultural level, to the initial spread and subsequent persistence of Christianity. The approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on religious texts, historical evidence about the treatment of children, and several areas of psychology. The article ends with an exploratory excursus intended to stimulate thought about possible childhood influences in non-Christian religions and myths; the traditions considered are Judaism and Islam, the religious-philosophic system of karmic reincarnation that is foundational to Hinduism and Buddhism, and a Greek mythic text associated with the historically important Eleusinian mystery religion.

« La mystique, entre régression et passion sublimatoire », Adolescence, 26/1 (2008) 143-157.

by Jean-Baptiste Lecuit

« Enjeux actuels de la “spiritualisation”. Approche interdisciplinaire », dans Lemoine, Laurent (dir.), Vérité, désir, expérience spirituelle et expérience psychanalytique, (coll. « Sciences humaines et religions »), Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2010, pp. 55-83. [Reprend des extraits de mon livre L'Anthropologie théologique à la lumière de la psychanalyse. L'introduction et la conclusion sont nouvelles.].

by Jean-Baptiste Lecuit

« L’épreuve initiatique dans les rites et le cheminement chrétien », Adolescence, 28/3 (2010) 545-561.

by Jean-Baptiste Lecuit

« La théologie de la relation entre Dieu et l’être humain, pensée avec A. Vergote à la lumière de la psychanalyse », dans Gaziaux, Éric (éd.), Pour une raison de la foi : la théologie. Conférences de l’École doctorale en théologie (2006-2008), (coll. « Cahiers de la Revue Théologie de Louvain », 39), 2011, pp. 175-215.

by Jean-Baptiste Lecuit

Ideology, Perception, And Genocide: How Fantasy Generates History

by Richard Koenigsberg

Nations have the right to kill: Hitler, the Holocaust, and war

by Richard Koenigsberg

Hitler's ideology: embodied metaphor, fantasy, and history

by Richard Koenigsberg

Individuation and the Mystic Union

by Dereck Daschke

Journal of Psychology and Christianity 12 (1993): 245-52.

Desolate Among Them: Loss, Fantasy, and Recovery In the Book of Ezekiel

by Dereck Daschke

American Imago 56 (1999): 105-32.

Loss, Fantasy and Recovery In Ancient Judaism: Ezekiel, 4 Ezra and the Baruch Apocalypses As Text of Mourning

by Dereck Daschke

Dissertation for the Doctor of Philosophy in Divinity, The University of Chicago Divinity School, 2000.

Because of My Grief I Have Spoken": The Psychology of Loss In 4 Ezra

by Dereck Daschke

Psychology and the Bible: A New Way to Read the Scriptures, vol. II.  J. Harold Ellens and Wayne G. Rollins, eds.  Greenwood-Praeger Publishing, 2004.