"Michael Palmer's book, is escatly what it says it is:a study of Freud's and Jung's psychologies and their
understandings of religion.."
--Peter Homans, Divinity School and Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, in Contemporary Psychology
APA Review of Books, 2002.
Publisher Web Site, December, 2002
Summary
Michael Palmer provides a detailed account of two of the most important theories of religion in the history
of psychology--those of Freud and Jung.
The book first analyzes Freud's claim that religion is an obsessional neurosis, a psychological illness fueled
by sexual repression. He then considers Jung's rejection of Freud's theory, and his own assertion that it is the
absence of religion, not its presence, which leads to neurosis.
