Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis

Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis

by Robert Langs
ISBN-10:
0765705311
ISBN-13:
9780765705310
Pub. Date:
10/15/2007
Publisher:
Aronson, Jason Inc.
ISBN-10:
0765705311
ISBN-13:
9780765705310
Pub. Date:
10/15/2007
Publisher:
Aronson, Jason Inc.
Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis

Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death's Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis

by Robert Langs
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Overview

The first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments, Beyond Yahweh and Jesus centers on God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxieties it evokes. Yahweh is seen as tending to increase rather than diminish these death anxieties, while Christ offers near-perfect solutions to each type. Why, then, asks Dr. Langs, has Christ failed to bring peace to the world? Langs' answer is focused on what is, he argues, Western religion's lack of a deep understanding of human psychology-i.e., an absence of the psychological wisdom needed to supplement the spiritual wisdom of religion. This is a void bemoaned as early as the mid-1800s by the Archbishop Temple and by Carl Jung in the early 20th century. The journey on which Langs' study embarks leads through an examination of the related topics of knowledge acquisition and divine wisdom; the failure of psychoanalysis to provide religion with the psychology it needs to fulfill its mission; and a set of propositions that are intended to bring psychological wisdom to religion and thereby to initiate the third chapter in the history of God, in which a refashioned morality and fresh divine wisdom play notable roles. Simultaneously, the book offers a foundation for secular forms of spirituality and morality, as well as for human efforts to cope with death and its incumbent anxieties. The mission of this book is a lofty but necessary one: to reinvigorate religion with new dimensions and insights so as to empower it, at long last, to help bring peace to the world, both individually and collectively.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780765705310
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Pages: 220
Product dimensions: 6.28(w) x 9.46(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Robert Langs, M.D. is the author of 45 books and some 170 papers on psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, the emotion-processing mind and its evolutionary history and adapative capacities, the therapeutic interaction and its boundaries, ground rules, and techniques, and the role played by trauma, death, and death anxiety in both human creativity and emotional difficulties as played out in the treatment situation and everyday life.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Author's Note Chapter 2 My Appointment in Samara Chapter 3 The First Question: God's Answer Chapter 4 The First Question: Eve's Answer Chapter 5 Death Anxiety and Divine Wisdom Chapter 6 Augustine's Version of Adam's Sin Chapter 7 Eve's Motives Chapter 8 Cain and Abel Chapter 9 Augustine's Reliving of the Sin of Cain Chapter 10 The Failure to Master Death Anxiety: Yahweh Chapter 11 Resolving Death Anxiety: Jesus Christ Chapter 12 The Failure of Religious Beliefs Chapter 13 Why Psychoanalysis Failed Religion Chapter 14 The Future of Religious and Secular Spirituality
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