Seeing God in our birth experiences: a psychoanalytic inquiry into pre and perinatal religious development

by Holmes, Helen (Lecturer)

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Full title :Seeing God in our birth experiences : a psychoanalytic inquiry into pre and perinatal religious development / Helen Holmes.

Summary

"There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to seek the supernatural and the divine comes from. This book adds a new and innovative perspective to this line of thought by being the first to link prenatal and perinatal experiences to the origins of these unconscious underpinnings of our shared images of God. The book poses a ground-breaking paradigm by thinking about our earliest images of God, whether theist or atheist, within a psychoanalytic framework, comparing and contrasting the thought of Freud and Rizzuto. It looks at the issue of images of God from a diversity of psychological perspectives including, attachment theory, developmental theory and bio-psychosocial perspectives. This analysis leads to the conclusion that in parallel to postnatal findings, uterine and birth experiences can predispose individuals to form God representations later in life, through underpinning affective and environmental factors. This is a bold study of the development of one of humanity's most fundamental aspects. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of the psychology of religion, psychology, psychoanalysis, religious studies and early infant development"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 220 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780367221447, 0367221446
oclc:on1142329345
LC Classification:BL470
Dewey Decimal:200.1/9

Rizzuto and Freud : parental origins of images of God -- Klein and Bion : the intrauterine in relation to the images of God -- The not knowing position in rleation to prenatal and perinatal life -- The perinatal origins of images of God -- Epigenesis, attachment and God representations -- The question of prenatal and perinatal underpinnings of God images -- Prenatal religious affect.