Augustine: The reader as self-object

dc.contributor.author	Gay, Volney Patrick
dc.date.accessioned	2008-11-12T14:51:14Z
dc.date.available	2008-11-12T14:51:14Z
dc.date.issued	1986
dc.identifier.citation	Gay, V. (1986). Augustine: The reader as self-object. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 25, 64â€“76.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1803/1676
dc.description.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.
dc.format.mimetype	Application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	en
dc.publisher	Blackwell Publishing
dc.source.uri	http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117996720/home
dc.subject.lcsh	Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
dc.subject.lcsh	Kohut, Heinz
dc.subject.lcsh	Self psychology
dc.subject.lcsh	Psychoanalysis and religion
dc.subject.lcsh	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo -- Confessiones
dc.subject.lcsh	Object relations (Psychoanalysis)
dc.subject.lcsh	Narcissism -- Religious aspects
dc.title	Augustine: The reader as self-object	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.description.college	College of Arts & Science
dc.description.department	Department of Religious Studies