Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:00:29 -0400 From: ken <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: new book On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:15:00 -0400 Mark Logan and Kathleen O'Grady wrote: > A new book I stumbled on that may interest some: Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis: Readings in Contemporary Theory. Janet Liebman Jacobs and Donald Capps, eds. Westview Press, 1997. This book was used for a course I TA'd for - Intro to Psychology of Religion. I would recommend it as a good intro text. One advantage of the book for students of religion (and teachers) is that it, because it is an anthology, has several different conceptualizations of religion. Some are theological and others are more social theory oriented. The chief weakness of the text reside in the two chapters on Lacan. I found them just as 'difficult' as Lacan's writing itself (they seem to mirror the style uncritically) ... which is unfortunate because it most other respects the anthology is really innovative. Diane Jonte-Pace wrote the chapter on Kristeva and notes that Kristeva's theory of religion is most clearly expressed in Powers of Horror, In the Beginning, and Strangers to Ourselves - which, Jonte-Pace argues is simply a rewriting of Freud's interpretive texts Totem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion, and Civ and Its Dis. ken --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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