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Freud on ritual: reconstruction and critique
(Scholars Press, 1979)
Augustine: The reader as self-object
(Journal for the Scientific Study of ReligionBlackwell Publishing, 1986)
My general thesis is that Confessions is written for an audience which Augustine uses as selfobjects...I do not formulate a diagnosis of Augustine's personality...I would rather emphasize the profound devaluation of ...
Reading Freud : psychology, neurosis, and religion
(Scholars Press, 1983)
The primary goal of this short book is to interrogate systematically Freud's major essays on religion. To do that well requires that we know what he is talking about when he compares religious rituals, for example, to ...
Semiotics as Metapsychology. The Status of Repression
(Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 1982-11)
Among the many replacements offered for Freud's much critizied metapsychology, those based on linguistics are especially popular. But are they adequate to the task? Peterfreund (1971), Ricoeur (1970), Schafer (1976), and ...