Winnicott's Legacy: On Psychoanalyzing Religious Patients

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Notes

¹I have previously discussed Freud's religious views and their limitations at length (Meissner, 1984).

² Rizzuto's (1979) study of the genetic and dynamic aspect s of the development of the God-representation demonstrates these effects dramatically.

³ Rizzuto (1998) has also documented in great detail the complex vicissitudes and influences resulting in Freud's proclaiming himself a “godless Jew.”

⁴I have discussed problems related to dealing with the concept of God in analysis more fully in Meissner (in press).