religion, women, and psychoanalysis Crownfield, David Additional Author mixed material bibliography New York State University of New York Press c1992 monographic en English

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xx, 160 p. ; 24 cm. Julia Kristeva works at a crucial intersection of contemporary disciplines: psychoanalysis, linguistics, semiotics, literary criticism, feminism, postmodern philosophy, and religious studies. This volume examines this rich body of work and the ways in which its interdisciplinary style gives insight into problems in understanding religion. Special attention is given to two related themes: the understanding of woman in relation to religion and the role of mother (especially of mother's body) in the formation of self and of a religious discourse. Issues recurrent in the essays include the problem of ethics; the relation between discourse and the life of the body; the formation and sublimation of narcissism; the pre-Oedipal function of the father; the functions of fantasy, imagination, and art; the relation of religion to the negation of woman; and the possibility of positive and playful religion. The themes of the relation between the symbolic structures of language and a pre-symbolic semiotics of the infant body, of the split and decentered subject, and of the opposition between desire and Jouissance (ecstatic enjoyment) participate in organizing the discussion. Abjection and sacrifice in religion, the dynamics of Christian love and faith, the relation between the doctrine of the Virgin Mary and the experience of motherhood, and the question of feminism and its sometimes quasi-religious forms are also thematic. Women and psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis and religion Women and religion 150.195079141129X Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 150.195 Cro b E09004479 Non Fiction 150.195 Cro b 51Vmtg-6K7L._SY425_.jpg 1212 1991-07-31 00:00:00 2024-09-09 17:53:59 machine generated