Emotion and Spirit

Neville Symington

• Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Part One , The Nature of Primitive Religion , Mature Religion , The Judaeo-Christian Tradition , Religious Wisdom From the East , Socrates – Religious Teacher in Classical Greece , The Relation Between the Moral and the Spiritual , Towards a Definition of Religion , Part Two , Freud’s Diagnosis of Religion , Meissner’s Critique of Freud , The Challenge of Jung , From Causal to Moral in Psychoanalysis , The Current Relation Between Psychoanalysis and Religion , Erich Fromm’s Assessment of Religion , Part Three , The Human Condition , Narcissism and the Human Condition , The Transformation of Narcissism through Psychoanalysis , Part Four , The Domain of Psychoanalysis , Conscience and the Super-Ego , Self-Knowledge, virtue and mental health , Psychoanalysis – A Spirituality , Psychoanalysis – A Spirituality in the World , Science and Religion , Conclusion