Religious and psychoanalytic

Section: Psychology

Number of pages: 167 pages

In the shadow of the excesses of globalization, under the pressure of the market economy and technocracy, in an atmosphere of urban anonymity and secrecy, widespread rootlessness, and the decline of family and public authorities, contemporary man has become crushed between the two sides of chaos and confusion. In a world with these features, it has become impossible for our contemporary man to confront on his own the symptoms that threaten him with the doubts of death. For this reason, the question of meaning has become directed with great insistence to both psychoanalysis and religion. But the question that poses itself forcefully in this book is the following: What relationship is there between psychoanalysis and religion?