Depth psychology, interpretation, and the Bible : an ontological essay on Freud / Brayton Polka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polka, Brayton.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and religion.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Polka also raises the larger issue of the relationship between modernity, hermeneutics, and biblical ontology. He argues that the origins and structure of modern values can be understood only through a theory of hermeneutics whose ontology overcomes the dualism between the secular and the religious, between philosophy and religion. Polka shows this to be possible when biblical ontology is understood to be at once rational and faithful, secular and religious. He uses the work of Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard to articulate the ontological framework that makes clear how typically modern Freud is in being unable to account for the relationship of his thought to biblical religion. Polka argues that Freudian metapsychology, precisely because it cannot account for its own principles of explanation, contradicts the insights of depth psychology. Paradoxically, religion returns in Freud as the repressed, as it does in so much of modern thought. Polka shows that what is therefore required is a hermeneutical theory whose ontological articulation of biblical religion is critically self-conscious.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: In the Beginning ... Is Interpretation

The Pleasure Principle and the Unconscious

Love and Guilt

The Myth of the Primal Father

Moses and Monotheism

Conclusion: Interpretation and the Ontology of Creation ex nihilo

Appendix: Freud and the Upanishads

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-389) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85900-5

9786612859007

0-7735-6885-9

OCLC:

123470215