Inventing God

Name: Inventing God
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Inventing GodPsychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality\nAuthor(s): Jon Mills\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138195745, 978-1138195745\nSynopsis\nIn this controversial book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues that God does not exist; and more provocatively, that God cannot exist as anything but an idea. Put concisely, God is a psychological creation signifying ultimate ideality. Mills argues that the idea or conception of God is the manifestation of humanitys denial and response to natural deprivation; a self-relation to an internalized idealized object, the idealization of imagined value.\n\nAfter demonstrating the lack of any empirical evidence and the logical impossibility of God, Mills explains the psychological motivations underlying humanitys need to invent a supreme being. In a highly nuanced analysis of unconscious processes informing the psychology of belief and institutional.