Everything You Want to Know About Feminist Psychology But May Not Ask

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 696-697
Author(s):  
Violet Franks
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Psychology

scholarly journals Book Review: Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration, and Feminist Psychology

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghazala Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Psychology

Book Review: Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration, and Feminist Psychology

Object Relations Theory, Mothering, and Religion: Toward a Feminist Psychology of Religion

Horizons ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Jonte-Pace
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Psychological Understanding ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
Object Relational ◽  
The Image Of God

AbstractAlthough psychoanalytic object relations theory has been acclaimed for its ability to revitalize the psychological understanding of religion, the implicit sensitivity of object relations theory to feminist concerns has not been recognized. This paper suggests that object relations theory shares with feminist thought three central foci: relationality, mature dependency, and a revaluing of the mother-infant relationship. Through this coincidence of concern object relations theory can move toward a feminist psychology of religion which avoids not only Freud's reductionism toward religion, but also his patricentrism. The psychological antecedents of religious experience, ritual, and the image of God are examined from the object relational perspective, and are located in the maternal-infant matrix. It is suggested that this linkage of culture and mother offers a radical challenge to the psychoanalytic perspective.

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