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Credo?: Religion and Psychoanalysis by Patrick Casement, Aeon Books Ltd, London, 2020, 84 pp.

Credo?: Religion and Psychoanalysis by Patrick Casement, Aeon Books Ltd, London, 2020, 84 pp. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2022, 82, (324–327) 2022 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/22 www.palgrave.com/journals BOOK REVIEW Credo?: Religion and Psychoanalysis by Patrick Casement, Aeon Books Ltd, London, 2020, 84 pp. Disclosure: A pamphlet, written by a psychoanalyst who early in life studied for the priesthood is being reviewed by another analyst who spent his early life studying Rabbinics. One might well query: What tragedy, pray tell, has arisen in the traditionally atheistic World of psychoanalysis to allow this confluence of oddities? The antipathy between Psychoanalysis and Religion is ever-so-present in Freud’s writings. With a nod to Romaine Rolland at the very beginning of Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud, 1930), Freud does take a roughly agnostic position in just barely not denying the existence of oceanic or transcendental feelings among his collocutors: One of these exceptional few calls himself my friend in his letters to me. I had sent him my small book that treats religion as an illusion, and he answered that he … was sorry I had not properly appreciated the true source of religious sentiments. This, he says, consists in a peculiar feeling, which he himself is never without, which he finds confirmed by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Credo?: Religion and Psychoanalysis by Patrick Casement, Aeon Books Ltd, London, 2020, 84 pp.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 82 (2) – Jun 1, 2022

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 2022
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1057/s11231-022-09345-y
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2022, 82, (324–327) 2022 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/22 www.palgrave.com/journals BOOK REVIEW Credo?: Religion and Psychoanalysis by Patrick Casement, Aeon Books Ltd, London, 2020, 84 pp. Disclosure: A pamphlet, written by a psychoanalyst who early in life studied for the priesthood is being reviewed by another analyst who spent his early life studying Rabbinics. One might well query: What tragedy, pray tell, has arisen in the traditionally atheistic World of psychoanalysis to allow this confluence of oddities? The antipathy between Psychoanalysis and Religion is ever-so-present in Freud’s writings. With a nod to Romaine Rolland at the very beginning of Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud, 1930), Freud does take a roughly agnostic position in just barely not denying the existence of oceanic or transcendental feelings among his collocutors: One of these exceptional few calls himself my friend in his letters to me. I had sent him my small book that treats religion as an illusion, and he answered that he … was sorry I had not properly appreciated the true source of religious sentiments. This, he says, consists in a peculiar feeling, which he himself is never without, which he finds confirmed by

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Published: Jun 1, 2022

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