Contents

David Black 
The Relation of Psychoanalysis to religion 

Joel Kovel 
The Meeting of Psychoanalysis and religion 

Nina Coltart 
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: Does the Ego Exist? 

Julia Kristeva 
In the Beginning was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith 

Anthony Stadlen 
Freud's Judaism: Renewal and Betrayal 

Neville Symington 
Is Psychoanalysis a Religion? 

Containing new essays by leading clinicians and theoreticians from across the world, this short and accessiable book explores some of the many relationships that psychoanalysis can have with religion and spiritual life. At the end of the book are extensive quotations from Freud's own work on religion as well as a long bibliography. The book not only explores a fscinating topic in its own right,  but will prove to be an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.