Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren. Culture builders: A historical anthropology of middle-class life. Trans. Alan Crozier. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987; originally published in Swedish by LiberFörlag, 1979. ix × 321 pp. (cloth) (paper)
- Book ID
- 101357383
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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✦ Synopsis
He contends, in fact, that Judaism was not essential and that psychoanalysis is not a "Jewish science," as both anti-Semites and ardent Freudians have often assumed.
According to the author, Freud believed that science and religion are absolutely at odds with each other, comprising wholly incompatible styles of thinking about the world. While Freud was very much aware of his Jewishness and was in fact proud of it, this had nothing to do with the making of psychoanalysis itself.
Gay not only discusses Freud's life and personality as they affected his ideas on religion but also compares Freud's thoughts on religion to those of William James, Charles Darwin, Paul Tillich, and a host of other figures.