God, Biblical Stories and Psychoanalytic Understanding
Kessler, Rainer / Vandermeersch, Patrick
In every process of reading there is interaction between text and reader. Religious texts speak about God, readers of religious texts have their images of God. Thus, in the process of reading religious texts we have a triangle with text, reader and God at the extreme points. But how are these points connected? The articles in the book discuss this question. They focus on biblical texts, and they make use of different psychoanalytic approaches....