Article ID: CBB866746082

The Return of the Repressed. On Robert N. Bellah, Norman O. Brown, and Religion in Human Evolution (2020)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Bortolini, Matteo
Jeffrey Rubel
Åsa Andersson
Fierro, Catriel
Christopher M. Rudeen
Vannier, Patricia
Concepts
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Sociology
Social sciences
Religion
Academic disciplines
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Renaissance
Enlightenment
20th century, early
Places
United States
Manitoba (Canada)
Argentina
France
Canada
Institutions
University of Manitoba
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