RT Article
T1 Psychoanalysis, religious experience, and the study of religion: Not “religious studies”
JF Critical research on religion
VO 1
IS 1
SP 25
OP 32
A1 Hewitt, Marsha Aileen 1948-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1752583140
AB Psychoanalytic critical theory explores the dynamics of individual identity formation within specific cultural contexts. Freud understood that psychoanalysis is a critical social theory as well as a therapeutic practice. His studies on religion illustrate the depths of society and culture within the mind. Freud was thus able to respond to Romain Rolland's experience of an “oceanic” or mystical feeling in thoroughly explanatory psychoanalytic terms that led him to speculate about pre-Oedipal memories of maternal care. Freud made an important contribution to the psychoanalytic study of religion that remains relevant to contemporary academic studies of religion.
K1 Critical Theory
K1 Freud
K1 Psychoanalysis
K1 Religious Experience
DO 10.1177/2050303213476102