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The author's Roman Catholic background prepared her to become a psychoanalyst..

The Birth of the Living God: A Psychoanalytic Study

by Ana-Maria Rizzuto, M.D.

Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D.Profiles in Catholicism

This is not a book on religion.

It is a clinical study of the possible origins of the individual’s private representation of God and its subsequent elaborations.

In Freud and the Spoken Word: Speech as a key to the unconscious, Ana-María Rizzuto contends that Freud's focus on the intrapsychic function and.

Based on: Reineke M.J.Goodman D.M. (Eds.).

The author's Roman Catholic background prepared her to become a psychoanalyst.

Rizzuto asserts that later in life, the experience of the primal objects and their characteristics is used directly in the first representation of God. 52.

It is also a study of the relation existing in the secret chambers of the human heart between that God and the person who believes in him during the vicissitudes of the life cycle.

Rizzuto’s interest in this subject was aroused in October 1963, at Condoba, Argentina, under unusual circumstances.

I was asked to teach a course for the students of the Pontifical Seminary on “the psychological foundations of belief and pastoral care”. The dean of the seminary offered her complete freedom to teach whatever she thought pertinent and relevant for all who would spend their lives dealing with peoples’ struggles with God and their fellow men.

The focus was that all w