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Title: What sort of a thing is a religion? a view from object-relations theory
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: D. M. Black

Description: This paper suggests that a religion is not, as Freud proposed, a science-like thing, refutable by evidence. It is a socially constructed and maintained system of internal objects, analogous to those spoken of in psychoanalysis. Like analytic internal objects, religious objects have a heuristic function but no material existence. Unlike analytic objects, they are derived from a definite cultural tradition and are elaborated over time to meet the experience of practitioners. They may be understood to have a function of 'containing' the feelings, thoughts and fantasies arising in individual practitioners, and of making these experiences comprehensible. These objects then enable the believer to speak more truthfully of, and relate more fully to, the larger matrix within which the human world is situated. Finally, the suggestion is made that, as with analytic internal objects, religious objects may best be judged by their long-term effects on the lives of believers.

Publisher Place: London
Publisher: Routledge for the Institute of Psycho-Analysis
Normalized publisher place: London
Publisher country: United Kingdom
Published Date: 1993-06
Subject: Christianity
Judaism
Sigmund Freud
History of Medicine
Religion and psychology
Object relations theory
Classification: Buddhism and Science -- International Science -- Psychology -- Psychodynamic Theory
Buddhism and Science -- Related Humanities -- Science and Religion
Cultural Coverage: Euro-American
Temporal coverage: 20th century CE
Language: English
Series 2 editor:
Source URL: http://www.ijpa.org/index.htm
Source: The International journal of psychoanalysis
Source Editor: G. O. Gabbard
P. Williams
Source Type: Journal
Source Volume: 74 ( Pt 3)
Source Number: 3
Source Page Numbers: 613-625
Start Date: 1920
Frequency of publication: Irregular
Submissions: See the journal's notes for contributors.
ISBN/ISSN: 0020-7578
Location and access number: 8344777

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Resource Type: Article
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Date Last Modified: 2005-12-20 09:56:33
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