Freud and Jung on Religion (Paperback, New)

Michael Palmer's book provides a detailed account of the theories of religion of both Freud and Jung - widely held to be the two most important theories of religion in the history of psychology.
In the first section Dr Palmer analyses Freud's claim that religion is an obsessional neurosis - a psychological illness fuelled by sexual repression. The second section considers Jung's rejection of Freud's theory and his own assertion that it is the absence of religion, not its presence, which leads to neurosis.
Freud and Jung on Religion will be suitable for general and specialist reader alike, as it assumes no prior knowledge of the theories of Freud and Jung. It will be essential reading for all those concerned with contemporary debates between the disciplines of psychology and religion.

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