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A. Johan Noordsij, MD

Professor of Psychiatry,
Capersen School of Graduate Studies,
Drew University
Madison, NJ, 07940
anoordsi@drew.edu
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Fall 2009

Course:  RLSOC                                                           Tuesdays 4:00-6:30
              MEDHM
              ARLET   

Freud and Religion

To most people, Sigmund Freud is known as the archetypical unbeliever.  Less known is the fact that throughout his life he wrote extensively about religion, thereby founding a discipline of “Psychoanalysis and Religion.”  In this seminar, we shall read his writings chronologically, while studying the commentaries of twentieth century psychoanalysts and theologians: Peter Homans, Julia Kristeva, and Ernest Wolf. 

Required Reading List

The references to the readings in Freud refer to the Standard Edition of the complete psychological works: London:  Hogarth, 1953-74, indicated as SE.  An asterisk before the reference indicates that copies of that reading will be distributed during the first meeting of this seminar.  All other readings are available in paperback from Amazon.com, etc. and also from our bookstore. 

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Readings in S. Freud

  1. *  (1907) Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices.  SE 9: 116-127.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1908) “Civilized” Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness.  SE 9: 179-204.  GW.

 

  1.    (1910) Leonardo de Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood.  SE 11:  59-137.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1912) Postscript to the Schreber Case.  SE 12:  80-82.  GW.

 

  1.     (1912-13) Totem and Taboo.  SE 13: 1-161.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1913) The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales.  SE 12: 280-287.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1913) The Theme of the Three Caskets.  SE 12: 290-301.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1914) On Narcissism.  An Introduction.  SE 14:  69-102.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1915) Mourning and Melancholia.  SE 14:  239-258.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1915) On Transience.  SE 14:  304-307.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1915) Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.  SE 14:  274-302.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1916) A Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession.  SE 14:  337-338.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1918) The Taboo of Virginity.  SE 11:  192-208.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1919) Preface to Reik’s Ritual:  Psychoanalytic Studies.  SE 17:  258-263.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1919) The Uncanny.  SE 17:  218-256.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1920) Beyond the Pleasure Principle.  SE 18:  3-64.

 

  1.     (1921)  Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.  SE 18:  67-143.

 

  1.     (1927)  The Future of an Illusion.  SE 21:  3-56.  GW.

 

  1.    (1930)  Civilization and its Discontents.  SE 21:  59-145.  GW. 

 

  1. *  (1914)  The Moses of Michelangelo.  SE 13:  210-238.  GW.

 

  1. *  (1933) Why War?  SE 22:  197-215.  GW.

 

  1.  * (1938) A Comment on Anti-Semitism.  SE 23:  289-293.  GW.

 

  1.     (1939)  Moses and Monotheism.  SE 23:  3-137.  GW.

 

  1.  * (1917)  A Difficulty in the Path of Psychoanalysis.  SE 17:  136-144.  G.W. 


Secondary Literature

  1. Homans, Peter (1989).  The Ability to Mourn.  Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  ISBN 0-226-35111-4.

 

  1. Kristeva, Julia (1987).  In the Beginning was Love:  Psychoanalysis and Faith.  New York: Columbia University Press.  ISBN 0-231-06516-7.

 

  1. Kristeva, Julia (1985).  Au commencement était l’amour.  Psychanalyse et foi.  Hachette.

 

  1. Wolf, Ernest S.  Treating the Self: Elements of Clinical Self Psychology. New York: The Gilford Press.  ISBN 0-89862-717-6.

Suggested Readings

 

  1. Gay, Peter (1987).  A Godless Jew.  Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis.  New Haven.  Yale University Press.

 

  1. Homans, Peter (1979).  Jung in Context: Modernity and the Making of a Psychology.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

 

  1. Jones, Ernest (1957).  The Live and Work of Sigmund Freud.  Vol. III, Chapter 13: “Religion, pp. 349-374.  New York:  Basic Books.

 

  1. Jung, C. G.  Two Essays on Analytical Psychology.  Collected Works, Vol. 7.  (available in paperback.)

 

  1. Jung, C. G. (1963).  Memories, Dreams, and Reflections.  New York: Random House, Inc.

 

  1. Küng, Hans (1979).  Freud and the Problem of God.  New Haven:  Yale University Press.

 

  1. Laplanche, Jean (1976).  Life and Death in Psychoanalysis.  Baltimore.  The Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

  1. Levi-Strauss, Claude (1963).  Structured Anthropology.  Basic Books, Inc.  ISBN 0-465-09516-X.

 

  1. Ricoeur, Paul (1970).  Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. Trans. Denis Savage. New Haven: Yale University Press. 

 

  1. Ricoeur, Paul.  De l’Interpretation.  Paris:

 

  1. Rieff, Philip (1961).  Freud: The Mind of the Moralist.  Anchor edition by the Viking Press, Inc.

 

  1. Rizzuto, Ana-Maria.  Why Did Freud Reject God? A Psychodynamic Interpretation.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

 

  1. Smith, Wilfred Cantwell (1998).  Believing—An Historical Perspective.  Oxford: Oneworld.  ISBN: 1-85168-166-3.

 

  1. Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim (1991).  Freud’s Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

 

Syllabus

Week

Date

 

Homans

Freud

Wolf

Kristeva

1

2/9

Introduction

 

 

 

 

2

9/9

 

1

1,2,3

1,2

 

3

16/9

 

2

4,5: I, II

3 through p. 38

 

4

23/9

 

3

5: III, IV

3 through p. 49

 

5

30/9

 

4,5

6,7,8

4

1

 

7/10

Reading Week

 

 

 

 

6

14/10

 

6,7

9,10,11,24,12,13

5

2

7

21/10

 

8 through p. 171

14,15,21,22

6

3

8

28.10

 

8 through p.208

16

7,8

4

9

4/11

 

9 through p. 231

17

9

5

10

11/11

 

9 through p. 258

20,18

10

6

11

18/11

 

10,11

19

11

7

12

25/11

 

12,13

23 through p.72.

The Analogy

12

8

13

2/12

 

14

23 through p.137

13

9