{"product_id":"a-godless-jew-9780300046083","title":"A Godless Jew","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy did none of the devout create psychoanalysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? Freud once asked. In this book, the eminent historian and Freud scholar Peter Gay enters the long-running controversy about the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis. Gay takes seriously Freud's claim that he was an atheist and argues that atheism was an essential stance for the making of psychoanalysis. He contends, in fact, that Judaism was not essential and that psychoanalysis is not a Jewish science, as both anti-Semites and ardent Freudians have often assumed.Peter Gay begins by discussing why psychoanalysis could only have been conceived by an atheist. According to him, Freud saw science and religion as absolutely at odds with each other. While some theologians and analysts have attempted to forge an alliance between psychoanalytic and religious positions, these attempts at accommodation have failed and must fail. Psychoanalysis is not a religion, and the two compris","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359010128215,"sku":"9780300046083","price":23.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300046083.jpg?v=1754123210","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-godless-jew-9780300046083","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}