Freud, Jung, and Jonah: Religion and the Birth of the Psychoanalytic Periodical

This book explores the controversial relationship between religion and psychoanalysis, highlighting how relational dynamics shaped the psychoanalytic corpus on religion in the early years of the movement. It offers an interdisciplinary approach and sheds new light on the early history of the psychoanalytic movement.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 395 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The impact of religion on psychoanalysis has been profound, casting it into controversy and bringing it onto the world stage. In the early years of the first psychoanalytic periodicals, the relational dynamics between psychoanalysts shaped the development of the psychoanalytic corpus on religion. While these pioneers developed their ideas in tandem, often in protest to one another, their contributions were invaluable in shaping the field.

Religion is a topic of significant interest, particularly due to the symbolic terrain often used to motivate, discipline, or exclude members of the psychoanalytic community in publication. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to religion and psychology, exploring new narratives about longstanding rumors in the early history of the psychoanalytic movement.

Above all, this volume demonstrates that the first generation of psychoanalysts successfully wrote themselves into the history of religious thought and sacralized the origins of psychoanalysis. Their contributions have left an indelible mark on the field, shaping the way we understand the relationship between religion and psychology today.

Weight: 582g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781009108263