Psychoanalysis and Religion (The Terry Lectures Series)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 126 pages
• Published by: Yale University Press September 10, 1959
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0300000898
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0300000894
• Book Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 5 ounces

Product Description
In this classic work a noted psychoanalyst assesses the persistent tension between traditional religion and the underlying philosophy of psychoanalysis, which many believe regards the satisfaction of instinctive and material wishes as the sole aim of life.

Reader Reviews
Fromm rigidly adheres to his version of the humanist position here by claiming that the mystics of all faiths have been imbued with the glow of man's powers--powers of heart, mind, spirit--rather than God's, God being a symbol of those same powers, awaiting unfoldment. From a theistic/mystical perspective, however, this is a side-effect, and if taken for the Source of the experience brings on a tremendous inflation of the ego. No mystic really thinks, as Fromm does, that man is the measure of all things. Fromm is best when he sticks to human psychology--THE SANE SOCIETY, ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM, THE ART OF LOVING are worth buying.