Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal: The Philosophers and the Freudians
Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal explores a tradition of sublimation and the theories of creativity in works of the four greatest Russian religious thinkers: Solovyov, Rozanov, Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Crone's study adds what is missing to the few books that currently exist ab...
| Summary: | Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal explores a tradition of sublimation and the theories of creativity in works of the four greatest Russian religious thinkers: Solovyov, Rozanov, Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Crone's study adds what is missing to the few books that currently exist about the use of psychoanalysis in Russia. It shows how the sexual theories of creativity /sublimation of Solovyov and Rozanov led to the concepts of Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Intro -- Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Publisher's Note -- Preface -- I. Introduction. Towards Christian Renewal: Eros, Sublimation and Creativity in Modern Russian Religious Thought -- A Transvaluation of Christian Values Conducted from Within -- Part One: Russian Theories of Sublimation before Freud -- Introduction to Part One -- II. Solovyov on Eros and Creativity: "The fullest sounding chord…" -- Solovyov and Plato-the 1890's -- Eros: The Force which Spiritualizes/Christianizes the Flesh -- Solovyov's Texts Relating to Eros and Creativity -- Caveat: Against an Overly Traditional Reading of Solovyov, the Christian -- Aesthetics-Beauty as a Relationship, "Beauty in Nature" -- From Eros to Aesthetics-Love and Creativity as Parallel Versions of Sublimation -- Solovyov's Poetic Expression of the Connection of Eros and Creativity -- Solovyov on Fet's Love Poetry -- Transition. Rozanov and Solovyov -- III. Eros and Creativity: From Solovyov's "Love" to Rozanov's "Sex" -- Rozanov on Sex and Love. The Move to the Family Topic -- Rozanov's The Family Question in Russia -- Distortions or Expansions. Rozanov's Emended Version of Solovyovian Principles -- From Sex to Creativity: Rozanov's Answer to Solovyov -- Rozanov and Freudian Sublimation -- Part Two: The Two Meanings of Creativity: Personality-Construction and the Production of Sublime Works -- Introduction to Part Two -- IV. Sublimation in the Atheist Sigmund Freud: Religion and Sublimation in Carl G. Jung and Otto Rank -- The Sexual Basis: Pan-sexualism -- Sublimation and Creativity in Freud -- Two Types of Backsliding into Religion: The Contrasting Cases of Jung and Rank -- V. The Creative Genius and the Beloved: Inner-directed and Outer-directed Eros. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-90-474-4455-8 90-04-18005-2 978-90-04-18005-5 |
