Kirk A. Bingaman is Director of Satellite Offices for the Lloyd Center Pastoral Counseling Service, an Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and an ordained Presbyterian minister.

• Acknowledgments Foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace Introduction BackgroundDifferent Fields and DisciplinesMethodology 1. Freud’s Interpretation of Religion The Defining Moment of DevelopmentGender AsymmetryThe Need for ReligionReligion’s Primitive Beginnings 2. What Freud Can and Cannot Teach the Religious Believer The "Text" of ConsciousnessThe "Text" of Religious FaithFaith and Personal TransformationThe Limitations of a Freudian Interpretation 3. The Psychical Role of God The Freud of Object Relations, the Oedipus Complex, and Family RelationsThe Freud of Science, Intellect, and RealityThe Importance of Psychical Reality 4. The Relation Between Religious and Gender Psychology Masculinity and the Reality PrincipleFemininity and the Pleasure PrincipleFemininity and Religious Faith 5. Beyond Either-Or: Toward a Constructive Reengagement with Freud Methodological StrategiesSomething Resembling Psychical Splitting? Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Kirk A. Bingaman is Director of Satellite Offices for the Lloyd Center Pastoral Counseling Service, an Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and an ordained Presbyterian minister.

• Acknowledgments Foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace Introduction BackgroundDifferent Fields and DisciplinesMethodology 1. Freud’s Interpretation of Religion The Defining Moment of DevelopmentGender AsymmetryThe Need for ReligionReligion’s Primitive Beginnings 2. What Freud Can and Cannot Teach the Religious Believer The "Text" of ConsciousnessThe "Text" of Religious FaithFaith and Personal TransformationThe Limitations of a Freudian Interpretation 3. The Psychical Role of God The Freud of Object Relations, the Oedipus Complex, and Family RelationsThe Freud of Science, Intellect, and RealityThe Importance of Psychical Reality 4. The Relation Between Religious and Gender Psychology Masculinity and the Reality PrincipleFemininity and the Pleasure PrincipleFemininity and Religious Faith 5. Beyond Either-Or: Toward a Constructive Reengagement with Freud Methodological StrategiesSomething Resembling Psychical Splitting? Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Kirk A. Bingaman is Director of Satellite Offices for the Lloyd Center Pastoral Counseling Service, an Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and an ordained Presbyterian minister.

• Acknowledgments Foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace Introduction BackgroundDifferent Fields and DisciplinesMethodology 1. Freud’s Interpretation of Religion The Defining Moment of DevelopmentGender AsymmetryThe Need for ReligionReligion’s Primitive Beginnings 2. What Freud Can and Cannot Teach the Religious Believer The "Text" of ConsciousnessThe "Text" of Religious FaithFaith and Personal TransformationThe Limitations of a Freudian Interpretation 3. The Psychical Role of God The Freud of Object Relations, the Oedipus Complex, and Family RelationsThe Freud of Science, Intellect, and RealityThe Importance of Psychical Reality 4. The Relation Between Religious and Gender Psychology Masculinity and the Reality PrincipleFemininity and the Pleasure PrincipleFemininity and Religious Faith 5. Beyond Either-Or: Toward a Constructive Reengagement with Freud Methodological StrategiesSomething Resembling Psychical Splitting? Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index