The return of the repressed. On Robert N. Bellah, Norman O. Brown, and religion in human evolution.
Hegel
Norman O. Brown
Robert N. Bellah
Sigmund Freud
evolution
interpretive social science
Journal
Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
ISSN: 1520-6696
Titre abrégé: J Hist Behav Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 18020010R
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2020
Jan 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
19
9
2019
medline:
13
5
2021
entrez:
19
9
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
As much as Robert Bellah's final work, Religion in Human Evolution, has been studied and dissected, no critic underlined the importance of psychoanalysis for its main argument and its theoretical framework. The paper shows the influence exerted by a controversial interpreter of Freud, Norman O. Brown, on Bellah's ideas, intellectual profile, and writing style in the late-1960s and early 1970s. While in search for a new intellectual voice, Bellah was struck by Brown's work and began to make intensive use of his book, Love's Body, both in his teaching and in his research of the early 1970s, during his so-called "symbolic realism" period. While Bellah abandoned Brown's ideas and style in the mid-1970s, some of the basic intuitions he had during that period still survived as one of the major theoretical intuitions of Religion and Human Evolution.
Types de publication
Biography
Historical Article
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
20-35Sujets (noms de personnes)
{'last_name': 'Bellah', 'fore_name': 'Robert N', 'initials': 'RN'}
{'last_name': 'Brown', 'fore_name': 'Norman O', 'initials': 'NO'}
Informations de copyright
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