Postcritical Religion and the Latent Freud

Abstract. Although Freud launches a devastating critique of religion, he makes significant contributions to religious maturity. On the “manifest” level, he attacks religion as illusion; on the “latent” level, however, he is preoccupied with religion as mystery deep in the psyche. This difference is...

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Autor principal: Reiser, R. Melvin (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 1990
En: Zygon
Año: 1990, Volumen: 25, Número: 4, Páginas: 433-447
Otras palabras clave:B postcritical religion
B Feminism
B maturity
B Psychology
B Freud
B Mystery
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Sumario:Abstract. Although Freud launches a devastating critique of religion, he makes significant contributions to religious maturity. On the “manifest” level, he attacks religion as illusion; on the “latent” level, however, he is preoccupied with religion as mystery deep in the psyche. This difference is between religion as “critical” or as “postcritical” (Polanyi)—as dualistically split from, or emergent within, the psyche. Postcritical religion appears in Freud as mystery, unity, feeling, meaning, and creative agency. We see why, for Freud, the mother as matrix keeps disappearing and what religious maturity is for “honest smallholders on this earth” who live within matrix as mystery.
ISSN:1467-9744
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1990.tb01119.x