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| Title: | Augustine: The reader as self-object |
| Authors: | Gay, Volney Patrick |
| Issue Date: | 1986 |
| Publisher: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Blackwell Publishing |
| Citation: | Gay, V. (1986). Augustine: The reader as self-object. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 25, 64â76. |
| ???metadata.dc.subject.lcsh???: | Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Kohut, Heinz
Self psychology
Psychoanalysis and religion
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo -- Confessiones
Object relations (Psychoanalysis)
Narcissism -- Religious aspects |
| Abstract: | My general thesis is that Confessions is written for an audience which Augustine uses as selfobjects...I do not formulate a diagnosis of Augustine's personality...I would rather emphasize the profound devaluation of narcissistic needs which animates the whole of Augustine's account. It parallels Freud's unanalytic denunciation of narcissism. What is denied and suppressed must, Freud taught us, reappear in a disguised form as symptoms and alienation. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/1676 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volney Gay
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