The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis: Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory

Introduction 1. Toward a cultural genealogy of psychoanalytic developmental psychology 2. The assenting ego: Anglo-American values in contemporary psychoanalytic developmental psychology 3. The developmental narrative: the design of psychological history 4. Theological sources of the idea of development 5. The Christian mystical narrative: Neoplatonism and Christian mysticism 6. Jacob Boehme: towards worldly mysticism 7. Romantic thought: from worldly mysticism to natural supernaturalism 8. Personal supernaturalism: the cultural genealogy of the psychoanalytic developmental narrative Conclusion.