Why Oedipus and not Christ?: A psychoanalytic inquiry into innocence, human sacrifice, and the sacred - Part II: The numinous and spiritual dimension as a metapsychological perspective

American Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 317-335

  Grotstein, James S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Psychoanalytic Center of California   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; NEUROSIS; OEDIPUS COMPLEX; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; REVIEW; EROTISM; LITERATURE; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; VIOLENCE;

CHRISTIANITY; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; OEDIPUS COMPLEX; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0031305635     PISSN: 00029548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022467406962     Document Type: Article

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