Teaching Freud in the Language of Our Students: The Case of a Religiously Affiliated Undergraduate Institution

Authors

Diane Jonte-Pace, Santa Clara UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2003

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Abstract

If the psychoanalyst must speak in the language of the patient, we, the teachers of Freud and religion, surely must teach in the language of our students. Who is Freud-and what is religion-in this language? The answer depends in part on academic context: Freud is taught in religious studies departments at public universities, private unaffiliated colleges, and religiously affiliated seminaries, colleges, and universities. This essay describes a course on "Religion in the Theories of Freud and Jung" at a religiously affiliated West Coast university with approximately four thousand undergraduate students.

Chapter of

Teaching Freud

Part of

AAR Teaching Religious Studies Series;

Editor

Diane E. Jonte-Pace

Comments

Teaching Freud edited by Diane Jonte-Pace, 2003, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-freud-9780195157697?cc=us&lang=en&#

Recommended Citation

Jonte-Pace, Diane E. "Teaching Freud in the Language of Our Students: The Case of a Religiously Affiliated Undergraduate Institution." Teaching Freud. Ed. Diane E. Jonte-Pace. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. 17-33.