Christianity & Psychoanalysis: A New Conversation

Unsurprisingly, given Sigmund Freud's understanding of religion, the conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis has long been marked by mutual suspicion. Psychoanalysis originated within a naturalist, post-Enlightenment context and sought to understand human functioning and pathology—focusing on phenomena such as the unconscious and object representation—on a strictly empirical basis. Given certain accounts of divine agency and human uniqueness, psychoanalytic work was often seena...