Herman Westerink
Biographic Data
| ID | 1152919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herman Westerink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herman |
| FAMILY NAME | Westerink |
| SIGNATURE | WESTERINK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking: Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking
Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle stands as a foundational text in psychoanalysis, delving into profound questions about life, death, pleasure and pain. Through a combination of contextualising and philosophical contributions, this critical edition and commentary sheds new light on Freud’s text. In a series of contributions spanning approaches from historical exegesis to philosophical reflections on key concepts and ideas presented in…
From Repetition and Drive Monism to Binding and Conflict: Re-reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
Ouvrage regroupant 3 articles parus dans la revue Imago, les deux premiers en 1937 (vol. 23), le 3e en 1939 (vol. 24)
Reconstructing Freud's Moses-Texts (1934–8): From Character Study to Contribution to Trauma Theory
Since the publication in 2021 of the first version of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism written in 1934, it is possible to reconstruct the genesis of the book as it was published in 1939, and to compare the two versions. The present article aims to contribute to this effort. It first presents a critical discussion of the reconstructions provided by Grubrich-Simitis and Gindele & Fagard. Then the hypothesis is elaborated that in the Moses project one c…
The Subject of Desire and the Hermeneutics of Thoughts: Foucault’s Reading of Augustine and Cassian in Confessions of the Flesh
Although Foucault presented History of Sexuality Vol. 4: Confessions of the Flesh as a crucial part in the study of the genealogy of the subject of desire, Foucault’s analyses of early Christian doctrine and pastoral technologies do not support the claim that an analytic of the subject of desire was established in early Christianity. This can be shown through a reconstruction of his readings of Augustine and Cassian. Augustine’s doctrinal views o…
‘Family Romance’ and the Oedipalization of Freudian Psychoanalysis
Although Freud's ‘Family Romances’ from 1909 is hardly ever discussed at length in secondary literature, this article highlights this short essay as an important and informative text about Freud's changing perspectives on sexuality in the period in which the text was written. Given the fact that Freud, in his 1905 Three Essays, develops a radical theory of infantile sexuality as polymorphously perverse and as autoerotic pleasure, we argue that ‘F…
Pathoanalysis of Existence and the Study of Religion – An Unfinished Freudian Project
In this article, I argue that Freud's interest in extraordinary cultural phenomena such as religion and art can be understood from the idea that psychoanalysis is fundamentally a pathoanalysis of human existence. In his earlier writings on hysteria and the theory of sexuality, Freud points out that the study of the psychopathologies is the best and maybe only way to understand the psychic life of human beings and consequently of a specific group …
Henri Bremond and the Religious Experience in Context
This article focuses on some psychological aspects of Henri Bremond’s work, notably the development of a psychologie de la foi , the research into the sentiment réligieux and his reflections on the relation between what is traditionally called fides qua and fides quae . It is argued that in the center of the writings of Bremond, who is working in the context of the modernist movement and the rediscovery of the Catholic spiritual and mystical trad…
Thinking Spirituality Differently: Michel Foucault on Spiritual Self-Practices, Counter-Conducts, and Power-Knowledge Constellations
In contemporary debates on the so-called "return of religion" in new forms and practices of spirituality, the spiritual practices are often seen as emerging on the ruins of a fragmented and outdated religious tradition. In this article an attempt is made to conceptualize spirituality beyond the religion-secularization divide. An alternative perspective on spirituality is developed through a reading of Michel Foucault's writings and lectures on sp…
Sexuality and its object in Freud's 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is one of the grounding texts of 20th century European thinking. In it Freud develops a highly original theory of sexuality for which hysteria (and pathology in general) serves a model to understand human existence. Freud published this text five times during his lifetime. This article wants to reconstruct the first edition with regard to the status and nature of (infantile) sexuality in relation to…
Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie (1905)
Der Verfasser, der sich uber die Lucken und Dunkelheiten dieser kleinen Schrift nicht tauscht, hat doch der Versuchung widerstanden, die Forschungsergebnisse der letzten funf Jahre in sie einzutragen und dabei ihren einheitlichen dokumentarischen Charakter zu zerstoren. Er bringt also den ursprunglichen Wortlaut mit geringen Abanderungen wieder und begnugt sich mit dem Zusatze einiger Fusnoten, die sich von den alteren Anmerkungen durch das vorge…
Erik Erikson's Verbal Portraits: Luther, Gandhi, Einstein, Jesus
In this book Capps delivers a new way of looking at Erik H. Erikson's famous writings on what Freud would have called “great men”. Capps starting point is Erikson's ambivalence regarding his associ
The resourceful self. And a little child shall lead them
In this book, The Resourceful Self. And a Little Child Shall Lead Them, Donald Capps takes his starting point from a certain popular opinion about Erik Erikson's writings, namely that his theories
Theology after Lacan. The passion for the real
Although psychoanalysis has almost disappeared from the psychology departments of many American and European universities, the influence of Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis on the psycholo
Demonic possession and the historical construction of melancholy and hysteria
Contrary to the often-voiced opinion that the birth of modern psychiatry should be regarded as a victory of enlightened science and rationality over outdated religious beliefs and ecclesiastical authority, it is argued in this article that the emergence of medical and psychiatric approaches to pathology in modernity takes place in the context of intensified religious life and mutual rivalry between the various religious denominations. Notably the…
Gesundheit – Religion – Spiritualität: Konzepte, Befunde und Erklärungsansätze
On True Friendship and on the Anthropological Relevance of Freud’s The Future of an Illusion
Spirituality in Psychology of Religion: A Concept in Search of Its Meaning
In this article it is argued that the apparent vagueness and broadness of the concept ‘spirituality’ and the difficulty in finding an agreeable definition for it are related to the different meanings of the concept within different intellectual and religious contexts and, subsequently, to different valuations of spirituality in relation to religion and lived religiosity. This article also examines the concept spirituality in the context of the ps…
Response to Donald Carveth's Review of A Dark Trace
Participation and Giving Ultimate Meaning: Exploring the Entanglement of Psychology of Religion and Phenomenology of Religion in the Netherlands
Psychology of religion in the Netherlands is rediscovering its historic entanglement with phenomenology of religion in the context of a current transition emancipating itself from the theological objective of re-establishing the relation between theology and faith practice (from the 1960s onwards), and developing into a discipline focusing on “lived religion” and interculturality in closer cooperation with religious studies. In this article the e…
The Great Man from Tarsus: Freud on the Apostle Paul
The author describes developments in Freud's writings concerning his views on the apostle Paul. This development shows that Freud more and more clearly regarded Paul as a key figure in understanding the complex relationship between Judaism and Christianity--and also as a man who essentially has no comfortable place in either of these religions. For Freud, Paul was a unique figure, an analyst of the human character and of his own culture and relig…
Sexuality and its object in Freud's 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is one of the grounding texts of 20th century European thinking. In it Freud develops a highly original theory of sexuality for which hysteria (and pathology in general) serves a model to understand human existence. Freud published this text five times during his lifetime. This article wants to reconstruct the first edition with regard to the status and nature of (infantile) sexuality in relation to…
The Great Man from Tarsus: Freud on the Apostle Paul
The author describes developments in Freud's writings concerning his views on the apostle Paul. This development shows that Freud more and more clearly regarded Paul as a key figure in understanding the complex relationship between Judaism and Christianity--and also as a man who essentially has no comfortable place in either of these religions. For Freud, Paul was a unique figure, an analyst of the human character and of his own culture and relig…
Participation and Giving Ultimate Meaning: Exploring the Entanglement of Psychology of Religion and Phenomenology of Religion in the Netherlands
Psychology of religion in the Netherlands is rediscovering its historic entanglement with phenomenology of religion in the context of a current transition emancipating itself from the theological objective of re-establishing the relation between theology and faith practice (from the 1960s onwards), and developing into a discipline focusing on “lived religion” and interculturality in closer cooperation with religious studies. In this article the e…
Response to Donald Carveth's Review of A Dark Trace
Spirituality in Psychology of Religion: A Concept in Search of Its Meaning
In this article it is argued that the apparent vagueness and broadness of the concept ‘spirituality’ and the difficulty in finding an agreeable definition for it are related to the different meanings of the concept within different intellectual and religious contexts and, subsequently, to different valuations of spirituality in relation to religion and lived religiosity. This article also examines the concept spirituality in the context of the ps…
Gesundheit – Religion – Spiritualität: Konzepte, Befunde und Erklärungsansätze
On True Friendship and on the Anthropological Relevance of Freud’s The Future of an Illusion
Demonic possession and the historical construction of melancholy and hysteria
Contrary to the often-voiced opinion that the birth of modern psychiatry should be regarded as a victory of enlightened science and rationality over outdated religious beliefs and ecclesiastical authority, it is argued in this article that the emergence of medical and psychiatric approaches to pathology in modernity takes place in the context of intensified religious life and mutual rivalry between the various religious denominations. Notably the…
Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie (1905)
Der Verfasser, der sich uber die Lucken und Dunkelheiten dieser kleinen Schrift nicht tauscht, hat doch der Versuchung widerstanden, die Forschungsergebnisse der letzten funf Jahre in sie einzutragen und dabei ihren einheitlichen dokumentarischen Charakter zu zerstoren. Er bringt also den ursprunglichen Wortlaut mit geringen Abanderungen wieder und begnugt sich mit dem Zusatze einiger Fusnoten, die sich von den alteren Anmerkungen durch das vorge…
Erik Erikson's Verbal Portraits: Luther, Gandhi, Einstein, Jesus
In this book Capps delivers a new way of looking at Erik H. Erikson's famous writings on what Freud would have called “great men”. Capps starting point is Erikson's ambivalence regarding his associ
The resourceful self. And a little child shall lead them
In this book, The Resourceful Self. And a Little Child Shall Lead Them, Donald Capps takes his starting point from a certain popular opinion about Erik Erikson's writings, namely that his theories
Theology after Lacan. The passion for the real
Although psychoanalysis has almost disappeared from the psychology departments of many American and European universities, the influence of Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis on the psycholo
Sexuality and its object in Freud's 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is one of the grounding texts of 20th century European thinking. In it Freud develops a highly original theory of sexuality for which hysteria (and pathology in general) serves a model to understand human existence. Freud published this text five times during his lifetime. This article wants to reconstruct the first edition with regard to the status and nature of (infantile) sexuality in relation to…
Henri Bremond and the Religious Experience in Context
This article focuses on some psychological aspects of Henri Bremond’s work, notably the development of a psychologie de la foi , the research into the sentiment réligieux and his reflections on the relation between what is traditionally called fides qua and fides quae . It is argued that in the center of the writings of Bremond, who is working in the context of the modernist movement and the rediscovery of the Catholic spiritual and mystical trad…
Thinking Spirituality Differently: Michel Foucault on Spiritual Self-Practices, Counter-Conducts, and Power-Knowledge Constellations
In contemporary debates on the so-called "return of religion" in new forms and practices of spirituality, the spiritual practices are often seen as emerging on the ruins of a fragmented and outdated religious tradition. In this article an attempt is made to conceptualize spirituality beyond the religion-secularization divide. An alternative perspective on spirituality is developed through a reading of Michel Foucault's writings and lectures on sp…
‘Family Romance’ and the Oedipalization of Freudian Psychoanalysis
Although Freud's ‘Family Romances’ from 1909 is hardly ever discussed at length in secondary literature, this article highlights this short essay as an important and informative text about Freud's changing perspectives on sexuality in the period in which the text was written. Given the fact that Freud, in his 1905 Three Essays, develops a radical theory of infantile sexuality as polymorphously perverse and as autoerotic pleasure, we argue that ‘F…
Pathoanalysis of Existence and the Study of Religion – An Unfinished Freudian Project
In this article, I argue that Freud's interest in extraordinary cultural phenomena such as religion and art can be understood from the idea that psychoanalysis is fundamentally a pathoanalysis of human existence. In his earlier writings on hysteria and the theory of sexuality, Freud points out that the study of the psychopathologies is the best and maybe only way to understand the psychic life of human beings and consequently of a specific group …
The Subject of Desire and the Hermeneutics of Thoughts: Foucault’s Reading of Augustine and Cassian in Confessions of the Flesh
Although Foucault presented History of Sexuality Vol. 4: Confessions of the Flesh as a crucial part in the study of the genealogy of the subject of desire, Foucault’s analyses of early Christian doctrine and pastoral technologies do not support the claim that an analytic of the subject of desire was established in early Christianity. This can be shown through a reconstruction of his readings of Augustine and Cassian. Augustine’s doctrinal views o…
Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
Ouvrage regroupant 3 articles parus dans la revue Imago, les deux premiers en 1937 (vol. 23), le 3e en 1939 (vol. 24)
Reconstructing Freud's Moses-Texts (1934–8): From Character Study to Contribution to Trauma Theory
Since the publication in 2021 of the first version of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism written in 1934, it is possible to reconstruct the genesis of the book as it was published in 1939, and to compare the two versions. The present article aims to contribute to this effort. It first presents a critical discussion of the reconstructions provided by Grubrich-Simitis and Gindele & Fagard. Then the hypothesis is elaborated that in the Moses project one c…
Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking: Critical Edition and Readings of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking
Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle stands as a foundational text in psychoanalysis, delving into profound questions about life, death, pleasure and pain. Through a combination of contextualising and philosophical contributions, this critical edition and commentary sheds new light on Freud’s text. In a series of contributions spanning approaches from historical exegesis to philosophical reflections on key concepts and ideas presented in…
From Repetition and Drive Monism to Binding and Conflict: Re-reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Philosophy (20 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Theology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works)