Legitimation of Hatred or Inversion into Love:' Religion in Kristeva's Re-Reading of Freud
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1999
Publisher
Brill
Abstract
This paper examines Julia Kristeva's psychoanalytic theory of religion. It situates Kristeva in relation to Freud, the object relations theorists, and the post-structuralist psychoanalysts, and suggest that in her work of the 1980's Kristeva revises Freud's four major cultural texts. She constructs a psychoanalytic interpretation of religion that maintains Freud's most important insights at the same time that it directs new attention to two themes Freud was unable to fully articulate: an inconscious association of anti-Semitism with the body of the mother, and the religious inversion of hatred and fear into love.
Chapter of
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 10
Part of
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Editor
Joanne Marie Greer
David O. Moberg
Recommended Citation
Jonte-Pace, Diane. "Legitimation of Hatred or Inversion into Love:' Religion in Kristeva's Re-Reading of Freud." Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 10 (1999): 17-35.
