Crone, Anna Lisa.
Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal : The Philosophers and the Freudians. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (278 pages) - Russian History and Culture Ser. ; v.03 . - Russian History and Culture Ser. .
Intro -- Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Publisher's Note -- Preface -- I. Introduction. Towards Christian Renewal: Eros, Sublimation and Creativity in Modern Russian Religious Thought -- A Transvaluation of Christian Values Conducted from Within -- Part One: Russian Theories of Sublimation before Freud -- Introduction to Part One -- II. Solovyov on Eros and Creativity: "The fullest sounding chord…" -- Solovyov and Plato-the 1890's -- Eros: The Force which Spiritualizes/Christianizes the Flesh -- Solovyov's Texts Relating to Eros and Creativity -- Caveat: Against an Overly Traditional Reading of Solovyov, the Christian -- Aesthetics-Beauty as a Relationship, "Beauty in Nature" -- From Eros to Aesthetics-Love and Creativity as Parallel Versions of Sublimation -- Solovyov's Poetic Expression of the Connection of Eros and Creativity -- Solovyov on Fet's Love Poetry -- Transition. Rozanov and Solovyov -- III. Eros and Creativity: From Solovyov's "Love" to Rozanov's "Sex" -- Rozanov on Sex and Love. The Move to the Family Topic -- Rozanov's The Family Question in Russia -- Distortions or Expansions. Rozanov's Emended Version of Solovyovian Principles -- From Sex to Creativity: Rozanov's Answer to Solovyov -- Rozanov and Freudian Sublimation -- Part Two: The Two Meanings of Creativity: Personality-Construction and the Production of Sublime Works -- Introduction to Part Two -- IV. Sublimation in the Atheist Sigmund Freud: Religion and Sublimation in Carl G. Jung and Otto Rank -- The Sexual Basis: Pan-sexualism -- Sublimation and Creativity in Freud -- Two Types of Backsliding into Religion: The Contrasting Cases of Jung and Rank -- V. The Creative Genius and the Beloved: Inner-directed and Outer-directed Eros. Quantity and Quality: The Freudians and Berdyaev vs. the Other Religious Thinkers -- Freud, Jung and Rank -- Either/Or or Both/And -- Rozanov's Practical Testimony on Idealizing Love -- Dependence and Independence-the Personality as Partial and Whole -- Perfect Sublimation in Freud -- Inappropriate Love Objects and Creativity -- Rank on Romantic Love in the Creative Genius -- Flesh (Biological Life) versus Spirit (Creative Life) -- Types of Erotic (and Anti-erotic) Energy (in Freud, Rank, Solovyov, Rozanov and Vysheslavtsev) -- Freud and Rank -- Solovyov, Rozanov and Vysheslavtsev -- Religious Monism and Religious Dualism:The Uniqueness of Berdyaev -- Berdyaev and the Freudian School on Creativity -- Love Relations in Dostoevsky. The Berdyaev-Rank Position versus the Bakhtin-Solovyov Position -- The Self-in Relationship versus the Self as Self-Sufficient Microcosm -- Part Three: Psychoanalysis as a Corrective to Christian Anthropology -- Introduction to Part Three -- VI. Berdyaev's Conflicted Engagement with Freud and Psychoanalysis -- Ambivalence about Man -- Utopianism and Dualism in Berdyaev -- Defensiveness and Ambivalence about Freud -- Ambiguous Attitudes towards Freud -- Critique and Emendation -- Failure to Leave Nietzsche Behind? -- VII. Christianizing Freudian Sublimation via Jung: Vysheslavtsev's Turn to C.G. Jung -- The Why and the How: Biographical Sketch of B.P. Vysheslavtsev -- Vysheslavtsev's Goal: "Not psychoanalysis, but psychosynthesis." Why Jung is so Useful for Russian Christianity -- Vysheslavtsev's Works and his Theory -- The Ethics of a Transfigured Eros (1931): Freudian Law and Jungian Grace -- The Judaic Basis -- C.G. Jung-the New St. Paul -- Vysheslavtsev's Modified Jungian Structure of the Self -- Sublimation and Creativity and the Mechanism of the Creative Process (Hierarchy of the Self) -- Hierarchy of the Self. How to Sublimate One's Self-Vysheslavtsev's Christianization of Jungian's Individuation, Vysheslavtsev's Mechanism of the Creative Process -- Role of Freedom -- Vysheslavtsev's Unexpressed Appeal to Jung -- "The Image of God in the Substance of Man" (1935) and its Emendations in 1954 -- Two Treatments of the Inefficacy of Christianity in the Modern Age -- VIII. Conclusions. Changes in the Godman as a Model for the Christian Creator -- Phase One: Attack on the Overly Spiritual (Non-sexual) Nature of the Godman -- Jung's Reprise of Solovyov's and Rozanov's Critique: Demonization of the Flesh/Nature -- Convergences of Rozanov and Jung in Specific Texts -- Phase Two: The Importance of an Idealizing Love Relationship for the Creative Christian -- Berdyaev and Rank on the Creative Man -- Phase Three: Unconscious Man versus the Super-Rational and Omniscient Christ -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Names.
Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal explores a tradition of sublimation and the theories of creativity in works of the four greatest Russian religious thinkers: Solovyov, Rozanov, Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Crone's study adds what is missing to the few books that currently exist about the use of psychoanalysis in Russia. It shows how the sexual theories of creativity /sublimation of Solovyov and Rozanov led to the concepts of Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev.
9789047444558
Vysheslav'tsev, B. P.
Electronic books.
BX485.C76 2010
230/.19092247
Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal : The Philosophers and the Freudians. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (278 pages) - Russian History and Culture Ser. ; v.03 . - Russian History and Culture Ser. .
Intro -- Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Publisher's Note -- Preface -- I. Introduction. Towards Christian Renewal: Eros, Sublimation and Creativity in Modern Russian Religious Thought -- A Transvaluation of Christian Values Conducted from Within -- Part One: Russian Theories of Sublimation before Freud -- Introduction to Part One -- II. Solovyov on Eros and Creativity: "The fullest sounding chord…" -- Solovyov and Plato-the 1890's -- Eros: The Force which Spiritualizes/Christianizes the Flesh -- Solovyov's Texts Relating to Eros and Creativity -- Caveat: Against an Overly Traditional Reading of Solovyov, the Christian -- Aesthetics-Beauty as a Relationship, "Beauty in Nature" -- From Eros to Aesthetics-Love and Creativity as Parallel Versions of Sublimation -- Solovyov's Poetic Expression of the Connection of Eros and Creativity -- Solovyov on Fet's Love Poetry -- Transition. Rozanov and Solovyov -- III. Eros and Creativity: From Solovyov's "Love" to Rozanov's "Sex" -- Rozanov on Sex and Love. The Move to the Family Topic -- Rozanov's The Family Question in Russia -- Distortions or Expansions. Rozanov's Emended Version of Solovyovian Principles -- From Sex to Creativity: Rozanov's Answer to Solovyov -- Rozanov and Freudian Sublimation -- Part Two: The Two Meanings of Creativity: Personality-Construction and the Production of Sublime Works -- Introduction to Part Two -- IV. Sublimation in the Atheist Sigmund Freud: Religion and Sublimation in Carl G. Jung and Otto Rank -- The Sexual Basis: Pan-sexualism -- Sublimation and Creativity in Freud -- Two Types of Backsliding into Religion: The Contrasting Cases of Jung and Rank -- V. The Creative Genius and the Beloved: Inner-directed and Outer-directed Eros. Quantity and Quality: The Freudians and Berdyaev vs. the Other Religious Thinkers -- Freud, Jung and Rank -- Either/Or or Both/And -- Rozanov's Practical Testimony on Idealizing Love -- Dependence and Independence-the Personality as Partial and Whole -- Perfect Sublimation in Freud -- Inappropriate Love Objects and Creativity -- Rank on Romantic Love in the Creative Genius -- Flesh (Biological Life) versus Spirit (Creative Life) -- Types of Erotic (and Anti-erotic) Energy (in Freud, Rank, Solovyov, Rozanov and Vysheslavtsev) -- Freud and Rank -- Solovyov, Rozanov and Vysheslavtsev -- Religious Monism and Religious Dualism:The Uniqueness of Berdyaev -- Berdyaev and the Freudian School on Creativity -- Love Relations in Dostoevsky. The Berdyaev-Rank Position versus the Bakhtin-Solovyov Position -- The Self-in Relationship versus the Self as Self-Sufficient Microcosm -- Part Three: Psychoanalysis as a Corrective to Christian Anthropology -- Introduction to Part Three -- VI. Berdyaev's Conflicted Engagement with Freud and Psychoanalysis -- Ambivalence about Man -- Utopianism and Dualism in Berdyaev -- Defensiveness and Ambivalence about Freud -- Ambiguous Attitudes towards Freud -- Critique and Emendation -- Failure to Leave Nietzsche Behind? -- VII. Christianizing Freudian Sublimation via Jung: Vysheslavtsev's Turn to C.G. Jung -- The Why and the How: Biographical Sketch of B.P. Vysheslavtsev -- Vysheslavtsev's Goal: "Not psychoanalysis, but psychosynthesis." Why Jung is so Useful for Russian Christianity -- Vysheslavtsev's Works and his Theory -- The Ethics of a Transfigured Eros (1931): Freudian Law and Jungian Grace -- The Judaic Basis -- C.G. Jung-the New St. Paul -- Vysheslavtsev's Modified Jungian Structure of the Self -- Sublimation and Creativity and the Mechanism of the Creative Process (Hierarchy of the Self) -- Hierarchy of the Self. How to Sublimate One's Self-Vysheslavtsev's Christianization of Jungian's Individuation, Vysheslavtsev's Mechanism of the Creative Process -- Role of Freedom -- Vysheslavtsev's Unexpressed Appeal to Jung -- "The Image of God in the Substance of Man" (1935) and its Emendations in 1954 -- Two Treatments of the Inefficacy of Christianity in the Modern Age -- VIII. Conclusions. Changes in the Godman as a Model for the Christian Creator -- Phase One: Attack on the Overly Spiritual (Non-sexual) Nature of the Godman -- Jung's Reprise of Solovyov's and Rozanov's Critique: Demonization of the Flesh/Nature -- Convergences of Rozanov and Jung in Specific Texts -- Phase Two: The Importance of an Idealizing Love Relationship for the Creative Christian -- Berdyaev and Rank on the Creative Man -- Phase Three: Unconscious Man versus the Super-Rational and Omniscient Christ -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Names.
Eros and Creativity in Russian Religious Renewal explores a tradition of sublimation and the theories of creativity in works of the four greatest Russian religious thinkers: Solovyov, Rozanov, Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev. Crone's study adds what is missing to the few books that currently exist about the use of psychoanalysis in Russia. It shows how the sexual theories of creativity /sublimation of Solovyov and Rozanov led to the concepts of Berdyaev and Vysheslatsev.
9789047444558
Vysheslav'tsev, B. P.
Electronic books.
BX485.C76 2010
230/.19092247