020041 SE Psychology of Religion (2010S)

In the Psychology of religion, an interdisciplinary which interlinks psychological theories and theories of religion based on different anthropologies, the study of man's relation with God is a key issue. Here, psychoanalytic perspectives have always played an eminent role. Freud and Jung discussed the question whether God representations could be called projections, and if so, in what sense. In later psychoanalytic schools such as object relations theory (Winnicott, Rizzuto) or Lacan oriented perspectives (Vergote) these representations were further reflected, also on a theological level. Currently, it is the attachment theory, in critical dialogue with psychoanalysis, that again elaborates relations with God.