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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 ...
Against Wholeness: The Ego's Complicity in Religion
(Oxford University Press, 1979)
Many students of religion suggest that wholeness or the attainment of an integrated self is an especially valuable goal whose attainment marks a moment of religious insight. Theoreticians like Jung, Allport, and Maslow ...