"Legitimation of Hatred or Inversion Into Love": Religion in Kristeva’s Re-Reading of Freud1
This paper examines Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theory of religion. It situates Kristeva in relation to Freud, the object relations theorists, and the post-structuralist psychoanalysts, and suggests that in her work of the 1980s Kristeva revises Freud’s four major cultural texts. She constructs...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1999
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| In: |
Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 1999, Volume: 10, Pages: 17-35 |
| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Social sciences B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | This paper examines Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theory of religion. It situates Kristeva in relation to Freud, the object relations theorists, and the post-structuralist psychoanalysts, and suggests that in her work of the 1980s Kristeva revises Freud’s four major cultural texts. She constructs a psychoanalytic interpretation of religion that maintains Freud’s most important insights at the same time that it directs new attention to two themes Freud was unable to fully articulate: an unconscious association of anti-Semitism with the body of the mother, and the religious inversion of hatred and fear into love. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004496224_005 |